This is an experiment in story-telling. It starts with the mother, Mary. She was from a well-known, and increasingly prominent family.

Katherine Carey Howard served at court throughout Elizabeth's reign moving from a maid to groom of the stool.

A recent episode in Maryland is a reminder that a spouse can be, and often is, a co-wielder of political power.

This new teenage bride had gotten her father to give her new husband an important office in his native Ireland.

For all the things we know about Anne Morgan Carey, Baroness Hunsdon, there is one important fact we don’t know. Her birthday.

There is a typo in Westminster Abbey. And it's been there for 450 years.