Do you share a birthday or anniversary with a member of the Tudor clan? (I do! Mary Queen of Scots and I were both born on 8 December.) Check the lists below to find out if you have more in common with the monarchs and their gang that you’d thought …

Tudor monarchs

• Henry VII — 28 January
• Henry VIII — 28 June
• Edward VI — 12 October
• Lady Jane Grey — sometime in October
• Mary I — 18 February
• Elizabeth I — 7 September

Other figures

• Mary Tudor (Henry VIII’s sister) — 18 March
• Margaret Tudor (Henry VIII’s sister) — 29 November
• Arthur Tudor (Henry’s older brother) – September 20
• Mary Queen of Scots — 8 December
• Catherine of Aragon — 16 December
• Anne Boleyn — birthday unknown
• Jane Seymour — birthday unknown
• Anne of Cleves — 22 September
• Katherine Howard — birthday unknown
• Catherine Parr — 11 November
• Thomas More — 7 February
• Henry Fitzroy (Henry VIII’s bastard son) – 15 June
• Thomas Cranmer — 2 July
• Phillip II – 21 May
• William Cecil, Lord Burghley — 13 September

Anniversaries

• Henry VII and Elizabeth of York — 18 January
• Arthur Tudor and Catherine of Aragon — 14 November
• Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon — 11 June
• Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn — 25 January
• Henry VIII and Jane Seymour — 30 May
• Henry VIII and Anne of Cleves — 6 January
• Henry VIII and Katherine Howard — 28 July
• Henry VIII and Catherine Parr — 12 July
• Mary Tudor and Louis VII of France — 9 October
• Mary Tudor and Charles Brandon — 13 May
• Margaret Tudor and James IV of Scotland — 8 August 
• Mary I and Phillip II — 25 July
• Mary Queen of Scots and the Dauphin Francis of France — 24 April
• Mary Queen of Scots and Lord Darnley — 29 July
• Lady Jane Grey and Guilford Dudley — 21 May