HistoryExtra Academy Elizabethans course

Tracy Borman at Hampton Court Palace

Explore Hampton Court Palace with Professor Tracy Borman. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Elizabethans quiz – week four. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Succession, with Professor Tracy Borman. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Elizabethans quiz – week three. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Plots and Rebellions, with Professor Tracy Borman. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Elizabethans quiz – week two. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Week Two: Elizabethan Daily Life, with Professor Tracy Borman. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

James VI and I: life of the week. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Week One: The Elizabethan court, with Professor Tracy Borman. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Elizabethans quiz - week one. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Queen Elizabeth I in procession with her courtiers, c1600-1603 (Photo by Historica Graphica Collection/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

Elizabeth I's accession day celebrations. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

King James was king of Scotland (as James VI) from 1567 to 1625 and the first Stuart king of England, from 1603 to 1625, acceding to the throne upon the death of Elizabeth I. (Photo by Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)

King James VI and I: your guide to the first Stuart monarch of England

Half-sisters and daughters of Henry VIII: Mary Tudor (left) and Elizabeth I, who both reigned as queen of England. (Photos by Getty Images)

Sisters at war: Mary I and Elizabeth I. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Ladies in Tudor costume in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire. (Photo by Steve Vidler via Alamy)

7 things you (probably) didn't know about Tudor fashion

Tudor childhood: from dodging death to nursery rhymes. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

What did the Tudors wear?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Tracy Borman and Rhiannon Davies

VideoTracy Borman on Elizabeth I. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Princess Elizabeth and Thomas Seymour (Photos by Getty and Alamy)

Did Thomas Seymour sexually abuse the teenage Princess Elizabeth?

A 16th-century portrait of Bess of Hardwick. Bess's talent, ambition and eye for a well-connected husband elevated her to dizzying levels of wealth and power in Tudor England. (Photo by Bridgeman Art Library)

Bess of Hardwick: schemer, social climber, scourge of Elizabeth I

A woodcut showing the interior of a kitchen in Elizabethan England. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Hold your noses: the smells, sounds and sights of Elizabethan England. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Mary, Queen of Scots during her trial at Fotheringhay Castle – where she was also executed for her alleged role in the Babington Plot (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images)

What if...The Babington Plot to assassinate Elizabeth I had succeeded?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Portrait of an African man, c1530 . (Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

The missing Tudors: black people in 16th-century England

Portrait of Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester (1532–88) an English nobleman. Dated 16th century. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

Robert Dudley: Queen Elizabeth I's great love

A portrait of the young Elizabeth I. (Photo by Art Collection 2/Alamy Stock Photo)

Elizabeth I's personality: the unfathomable queen

The daughter and great-niece of Henry VIII respectively, Elizabeth and Mary, Queen of Scots didn't feel strong family ties when it came to their relationship. (Photo by Getty Images)

Queens at war: Elizabeth I vs Mary, Queen of Scots

Mary Queen of Scots, after Nicholas Hilliard, 16th century, National Portrait Gallery, London. (Photo by SuperStock)

Mary, Queen of Scots’ tragic life. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Portrait of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester. (Photo by Ken Welsh/Design Pics/Corbis via Getty Images)

Princely pleasures at Kenilworth: Robert Dudley's three-week marriage proposal to Elizabeth I. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Mary, Queen of Scots is executed © Getty

Horrible Histories author reveals 10 ways to die in Elizabethan England

An illustration of Edmund Spenser’s poetic work ‘The Shepheardes Calender’. (Photo by Culture Club/Contributor/Getty Images)

The dark side of Elizabethan England

Lady Margaret Douglas, a close relative of Henry VIII. Her romantic liaisons landed her in the Tower of London on more than one occasion. (Photo by Florilegius/SSPL/Getty Images)

Margaret Douglas: The forgotten Tudor princess