Join us at Lavenham Village Hall for a special fundraising afternoon tea event with Tracy Borman OBE! Tracy will be talking to us about her career so far as an author and historian and her latest book, The Stolen Crown – a tale of treachery, deceit and the death of the Tudor Dynasty.

Tickets are £13.70 each. Bookings can be made at Lavenham Library (card and cash payments accepted) or online on Eventbrite. All proceeds from ticket sales will help the Friends of Lavenham Library to continue their work in supporting the library and its local community.

Tracy Borman is a British historian, author, and broadcaster best known for her work on the Tudor period. She’s Chief Historian at Historic Royal Palaces and Chancellor of Bishop Grosseteste University. Her acclaimed books include Elizabeth’s Women, Thomas Cromwell, and The Private Lives of the Tudors. Awarded an OBE in 2024 for services to heritage, she’s a leading voice in making royal history accessible and engaging.

Tracy is also a proud patron of Lavenham Library.

About The Stolen Crown
In March 1603, Queen Elizabeth I, the last Tudor monarch, lies dying at Richmond Palace. The queen’s ministers cluster round her bedside, urging her to name her successor – something she has stubbornly resisted throughout her reign. Almost with her last breath she whispers that James VI of Scotland should succeed her. Or so we’ve been led to believe.

But, as enthralling new research shows, this is not what happened. Elizabeth went to her grave without formally naming an heir. The notion of an approved succession from Tudors to Stuarts is little more than an elaborately constructed fiction – a fiction that went on to have devastating consequences. The Stuart regime rapidly descended into turbulence and uncertainty, conspiracy and persecution, witchcraft and gunpowder.

This event has been organised by the Friends of Lavenham Library.