Dr David Starkey

The Spring is thrilled to play host to this most talented and renowned historian. David describes his talk as follows: ‘With over-mighty father confessors, concealed deaths and lethal faction fights over the still-warm corpse, the Tudors died as excitingly as they lived. This lecture uncovers the astonishing story.’

For history fans this talk will provide a thrilling insight into the lives of some of England’s most loved/ hated and memorable monarchs – the Tudors.

So in the tragic words of an earlier monarch, Shakespeare’s Richard II:

‘…let us sit upon the ground, / And tell sad stories of the death of kings.’

The extraordinary story of the Tudor succession has never been so grippingly told.