Meeting at Powderham Castle Wednesday 17th April

STARCROSS HISTORY SOCIETY [SCHS)

 with 

KENTON PAST & PRESENT 

Wednesday 17th April 2024

7.00-8.30 pm

The Music Room, Powderham Castle, Kenton

by kind permission of the Earl of Devon

David Holland explores:

The Exeter Conspiracy Through The Eyes Of

Hilary Mantel’s Thomas Cromwell

 

ADMISSION FREE

Introduction to an historical whodunnit  In the 1520s Henry Courtenay, King Henry VIII’s cousin and very close friend, was the most likely male heir to the throne. However, during 1536/37 the mood music dramatically changed.

 

Henry Courtenay and his family, staunch Catholics, were suddenly in deadly danger from Henry VIII’s all-powerful minister, Thomas Cromwell, a Protestant. Cromwell accused the Courtenays and their powerful Catholic allies of plotting, The Exeter Conspiracy, to depose King Henry VIII, and replace him with a Catholic monarch… David Holland now takes up the story.

 

The connection with the Courtenay family and hence their relevance to Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall trilogy is previewed in A TALE OF TWO HENRYS - Henry Courtenay and Henry VIII on the Starcross History Society’s website https://starcrosshistory.blogspot.com

 

David Holland is kindly giving this talk as a prelude to the “Wolf Hall Weekend” event he is arranging in June at Cadhay House - https://wolfhallweekend.com/

 

Please note the change in venue for the 17^th April meeting from the SCHS’s and Kenton Past and Present’s usual ones.