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Happy New Year. No, I haven't gone mad. Today is Lady Day, when traditionally under the Old Julian Calander the year started on Lady Day or 25th March. So Happy New Year. It is called Lady Day as it's the Annunciation of the Angle Gabriel to Mary that she will bear Jesus.
Otd 1540..Henry Viii married wife no 5. Kathryn Howard, dtr of Edmund Howard and Josetta Culpepper was between 16 and 18 at the time of their secret wedding at Oatlands Palace. Henry had courted her for several weeks at least while she was in the service of Anna of Kleves wife