Saturday’s talk by Tudor author Nathen Amin attracted a very large audience of around 120 people. Nathen gave an impressive talk in which he introduced his latest book: ‘Son of Prophecy: the Rise of Henry Tudor’ and many queued up afterwards for the book signing.
Nathen has been a friend of our Society since meeting him all that time ago in October 2015 when we, as part of Pembroke Town Council’s Regeneration Committee, launched the Henry VII statue campaign – I have included the photo below. It was the time when the late Pauline Waters was our Mayor and George Lewis our President: both sadly missed by us all. Also in the picture with Nathen (right hand side of the photo) are authors Tony Riches and Terry Breverton who, on that occasion gave the talk and introduced his own latest book ‘Jasper Tudor’ together with Society Trustees Linda Asman and Rose Blackburn.
Nathen had campaigned for many years for a statue of Henry VII and had petitioned the Welsh government in vain, but with a start up grant of £20,000 from PCC we raised the necessary funding with exceedingly generous donations from the community and Valero. Our sculptor Harriet Addyman was also responsible for our stunning William Marshal statue.
So, a really successful and enjoyable event but the last one this year. We meet again on Saturday January 11th (we usually meet on the first Saturday of the month but in January that is always booked for the panto) when Stephen Scale will be joining us to talk on ‘Carew Castle; its Owners and Builders’.
