On 03 March 1542, Arthur Plantagenet, 1st Viscount Lisle, died within the Tower of London, aged about eighty-years old, having been imprisoned there since May 1540.

At the end of November 1558, or early December 1558, shortly after the accession of Elizabeth I, recently-widowed Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk, remarried; his new bride was eighteen-year-old Margaret Audley, herself having been widowed the previous year.

Around Christmas Time 1560, Katherine Grey, the younger sister of the ill-fated 'Thirteen Day Queen' Lady Jane Grey...

On This Day (11 Nov) in 1565, 16yo Anne Russell married 35yo twice-widowed Ambrose Dudley, 3rd Earl of Warwick.

Elizabeth I had reigned as Queen of England for forty-four years, when her health entered into a final decline in February 1603, whilst her court was at Richmond Palace.