Tudor Educational Colouring Postcards

Product Description: The Tudor Colouring Postcards consists of four A5 size colouring cards and six colouring pencils. The cards include an image of Henry VIII and his 6 wives, two knights in a jousting battle, Elizabeth I and 6 important Elizabethan figures and a card depicting the attack of the Spanish Armada. On the reverse of each card is an area to write a message, an address and to affix a stamp as well as educational information about the images on each card. There is a colourful header card that has pictures showing how the cards could be coloured in and all are held in a clear cellophane bag.

Information: Henry VIII married six wives. He wanted a son to be his heir and although his wives had given him plenty of sons, all but one had died. Children died very easily in Tudor times, so Henry really needed a second one to make sure. Henry divorced Catherine of Aragon and Anne of Cleves, Jane Seymour died after childbirth and both Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard were beheaded. His last wife Katherine Parr survived Henry when he died in 1547.

The skills and techniques used in jousting were also used in combat. In jousting tournaments mounted knights would unhorse their opponents by striking them with the end of their jousting lance while riding towards them at high speed. This is known as 'tilting'.

Elizabeth I was only 25 years old when she became Queen of England in 1558. Pictured are famous people from Elizabethan England: Lady Jane Grey – beheaded by queen Mary. Mary Queen of Scots – beheaded by Elizabeth I for treason. William Shakespeare – English poet, playwright and actor. Sir Francis Drake – explorer who circumnavigated the world in his ship ‘The Golden Hind’. Sir Walter Raleigh – poet, statesman and explorer. Sir John Hawkins – sailor who fought against the Spanish Armada in 1588.

On May 28, 1588, the Spanish Armada, sent by Philip II of Spain, set sail from Lisbon in Portugal heading for the English Channel. An army of 30,000 men stood in the Spanish Netherlands, waiting for the Armada to arrive. It was attacked and defeated by a fleet of 200 English ships, assisted by the Dutch navy, in the North Sea at Gravelines.