I get up early to get ready for a Change of the Guard tour, there is blue sky and sunshine already. Everyone is asleep so I can do some writing and look at my notes. Writing every day is good but reviewing my notes, is that a bad habit? Does that foster not being able to remember them? Or do I remember more each time?

On my last tour I couldn’t remember the name of Henry VIII’s first wife, so I looked it up, it was Catherine of Aragorn. She was an interesting lady. After the Evil May Day riots, many participants were arrested and led in chains to the gate to Whitehall Palace, there to be judged by the King. Traditionally those arrested would be executed.

One source says that Catherine got on her knees to beg the King to pardon them, how could the King refuse?

Perhaps that was why she did it.