December 26 - The interesting life of Rose Lok

On this day in Tudor history, 26th December 1526, Protestant Rose Lok was born. 

 

Rose lived well into her 80s and had an interesting life, being a Protestant exile, a businesswoman, and being the daughter of a man who supplied Anne Boleyn with religious books. She also had a ship named after her!

 

Find out all about Rose Lok in today's talk from Claire Ridgway, author of several Tudor history books. You can see this podcast as a video at the following link:

https://youtu.be/tQTHOFQAA3U

 

Read an article on Rose by Lissa Chapman at https://www.theanneboleynfiles.com/rose-loks-tale-lissa-chapman/

 

Also on this day in history, 26th December 1546, an ill Henry VIII made some changes to his will in preparation for his nine-year-old son, Edward, inheriting the throne. I explained more about that in last year’s video, as well as talking about how the Feast of St Stephen was celebrated in Tudor times - https://youtu.be/KCmnejkr0xc