20 June - Murder or Suicide? A Tudor Mystery...

On this day in Tudor history, the night of 20th/21st June 1585, in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, Henry Percy, 8th Earl of Northumberland, died at the Tower of London.

Was his death murder of suicide? And if it was murder, why?

Find out more in this #TudorHistoryShorts talk from historian Claire Ridgway. You can see this podcast as a video at the following link:

https://youtu.be/7QZFDMOzOO8