Devotion, Lust & an Exploding King: stories of love & death from Medieval & Tudor Syon Park, 7.30pm, 15 January 2024
In this illustrated talk, Howard Simmons, a professional guide at Syon for 10 years, will describe the Bridgettine nuns’ love of God, Henry VIII’s dissolution of the monasteries, his love of money and power and the marriages, births and deaths associated with his six wives, plus the strange account of his corpse exploding in Syon’s […]