Books, tea & Tudor history in London 📚 Birthday haul

[@Englishroserebecca]

I love the way you speak. You have a lovely accent and beautiful voice. Your videos are uplifting.

[@Claire_Fenby]

Ahaha thank you! I hate my accent so this means a lot 💖

[@circleofleaves2676]

I treated myself on my birthday this year too with purchases. I ordered a bunch of things that had been on my various wish-lists (let's face it, most of them were books or book-related). As the packages were delivered to my house, I slipped them out and without looking, wrapped them up as presents. On the night of my birthday I had a private little unwrapping party - gifts from myself to myself. I had never done that before.

[@Claire_Fenby]

This is so lovely! Treating yourself is so important I think

[@glendaslanina9939]

Happy birthday, Claire! That teapot was a great find. It is beautiful!😊

[@danielleptc]

This was such a lovely video, Claire! It sounds like you had a wonderful birthday. Here's to many more geeky celebrations! 🎂

[@Claire_Fenby]

Thank you 💓

[@scribbler_maxi]

Happy Birthday , lovely! Glad you had a wonderful time. 🎂🫖 I love a Waterstones but feel the same about Hatchards in Cheltenham. It's just got a different feel. Xx

[@WhatVictoriaRead]

I love how deliberate you are with your birthday celebrations and purchases, it’s such a joy to watch! And one of my top reads of the year so far is a biography of Agatha Christie by Lucy Worsley - it was so well done!

[@23bethgirl]

Happy birthday! 🎂 loved seeing everything you'd bought. Definitely agree with you about embracing your passions as you get older!

[@ATruthUniversallyAcknowledged]

What a wonderful exhibition! I love studying and reading about the six queens. I miss the NPG terribly and used to visit it regularly when I lived in London.

[@angelahampson391]

Totally loving the hair ❤

[@Al-iz2zt]

I always look forward to your videos!!! They are always so beautifully shot and peaceful to watch! 💗🌷

[@Claire_Fenby]

Thank you so much! That really means a lot

[@analaserna2345]

Happy birthday, Claire! 🎂 Lovely video

[@bekytg9393]

Happy Birthday Claire, from Down Under. Lovely video and fantastic birthday haul.

[@claudiacabelloglass4257]

Happy birthday 🎂! Loved your video, and book recommendations!

[@kathrynwhitfield717]

That was a lovely Birthday show n tell, so glad you had a wonderful birthday 🎂 xx

[@gatitamarra]

Happy Birthday, Claire! 🎂 I absolutely love your geekiness. It's nice to see people being utterly themselves.

[@Claire_Fenby]

Thank you so much!

[@sezhouse7897]

🎂Happy birthday, I will be looking for the virginia woolfe book😊

[@mandybrack1708]

Happy Birthday 🎂

[@gillwoolley6515]

Happy Birthday Claire. Lovely haul. I'm off to the exhibition in a couple of weeks. I can't wait ❤ I also have a balloon phobia 😂🎂🎂

[@Kimberly-pc9wr]

Happy Birthday to you darling! You are beautiful and I enjoyed your video so much! Thank you for making it!🎂

[@Claire_Fenby]

Thank you for watching!

[@irhonda31]

Wonderful video! Happy belated birthday!🎉🎂

[@gracetaylor7351]

🎂happy birthday Claire !! Like that teapot ! ❤

[@jacquiheywood3142]

Happy birthday from New Zealand.🎉

[@ingertsvard6731]

Happy Birthday! I agree the best way to see London is by bus! I do not live in London, unfortunately, the museums are the best in the world (at least I think so) and the bookshops make me sing and dance (😂). Trying to convince my kids to study in England - so I can visit often. Thank u for a very nice video.

[@aoivil]

What a lovely video. Happy birthday from Dublin 😊

[@circleofleaves2676]

Your necklace is beautiful. I love how the letter C looks like a crescent moon. It makes the design extra beautiful. And I love the lamp behind you! The colour of the base, and the lampshade shape. I feel like it's harder to find classic lamps these days.

[@Claire_Fenby]

Thank you! The lamp is actually Ikea but I think it looks so smart 💡

[@flaviafernandes6350]

Happy birthday, Claire!🎂💐, lovely video, delicate tea pot! So good to know that you had a great time in London!❤

[@mariekeberents6358]

So cozy geeky 🎂 🍰

[@rachaelbird9250]

I Love the Mary Poppins decoration.

[@marionbuck4086]

Belated Happy Birthday, Claire! Love your latest video. The exhibition sounds amazing! 😍🎂🥂

[@Claire_Fenby]

Thank you so much!

[@nkfbrx]

Happy belated! 🎂🎂🎂 Now that the heat has subsided a bit, I will dare to make it into central London again and first thing will be to go to the Six Wives exhibition

[@palestblue]

Happy Birthday! 🎂 It sounds like your had a wonderful birthday. That exhibition in the National Portrait Gallery, wow, as if it was made for you! I really envy your consistency, sometimes I feel like I change and change and change and lose myself again and again in the process. Hoe wonderful it must be to still be fascinated by the same things that fascinated you as a child/in your teenage years! 🥰😍 How I wish it was the same for me.

[@Claire_Fenby]

Thank you! It's definitely all down to being neurodivergent I think 😅 I become easily fixated!

[@dawnpetteford6726]

Thank you and Happy Birthday! 🎂 The exhibition looks amazing. I only get to London only about once a year but perhaps I can just make it before the end of this exhibition. x

[@jennymcevoy8961]

Love your videos Claire ❤

[@GemmaCreegan-tp4dk]

Happy Birthday Claire from Melbourne🎉I just bought The Six Wives of Henry VIII by Alison Weir based on your book recommendations ❤🎂

[@corinnearmstrong4451]

🎂 🖼 📚 🫖 ☔️ What a wonderful way to spend your birthday. Thank you for sharing it 💝

[@bluumz-n-veg]

I enjoyed your video, Claire, and would have bought everything that you did, LOL. I covet your Hodge the cat decoration and kick myself for not buying one when I was at Southwark Cathedral for Tracey Bowman's talk last year about her book on Anne Boleyn & Elizabeth I. But I did get the best photo of Hodge mid-stretch, stealing the show! Happy birthday! 🎂

[@Claire_Fenby]

I was also at that talk! Love Hodge ❤️

[@fozzymup268]

Happy Birthday, glad you had a lovely time! 💕🍰

[@ambroisebaleyn880]

Happy birthday Claire, wishing you a lovely 30th year !! 🎂🫖(btw I also have kind of a phobia of balloons, I feel you haha) It feels so nice to listen to you talk about the things you're passionate about. The Six Lives exhibition's book looks amazing ! Your St Nicholas decorations are very pretty, what an impressive collection ! It makes me want to start one haha The William Morris teapot IS pretty, indeed ! I'm 29 too, and have been following you for about ten years I think, your videos always make me want to read more and to go to England someday ! 💜

[@Claire_Fenby]

That's amazing! Thank you for watching my videos for all these years 💓 Whereabouts are you in the world? 🌍

[@ambroisebaleyn880]

@@Claire_Fenby France ! (not that far, but now we need a passport it's a little bit more complicated to cross the sea)

[@crazee4books]

🎂 Belated Happy Birthday Claire!!!

[@flippinpages6550]

🧁I always picked the De Young Museum in San Francisco. Some one tore down the beautiful victorian museum and put up an ugly modern block of a place. My soul weeps everytime I think about the old building and the new. I physically feel sadness. It is like cutting down a tree. Same feeling Happy Year to you.

[@rowenaroberta5244]

Happy Birthday, Claire! 🎂😊

[@polkadot1018]

Unrelated to this video, but wanted to thank you for introducing me to Diary of a Provincial Lady! I am in the middle of it now and finding it to be such a delight. I never would have stumbled upon it without your mention of it!

[@Claire_Fenby]

I'm so happy to hear that!

[@angiecowell5619]

I love your videos Claire as I too am obsessed with Henry VIII and his wives and reading. I have to say I cannot believe the tea towel, it’s quite bizarre having his wives in that order! I hope you had a wonderful birthday, I loved hearing about what you did and bought. Wishing you a very happy year ahead 🎉

[@Claire_Fenby]

I'm glad I'm not the only one who is confused by the order 😅

[@Evegalewitz]

🎂 happy birthday Claire! Been enjoying your literary and history vids for about two years now. The Tudor ornaments are looking lovely and look forward to seeing them hanging on your Christmas 🎄 in future videos.

[@Claire_Fenby]

Thank you so much for watching and sticking with my channel 💓

[@rana2804]

Happy birthday Claire 🎂

[@mhairigilchrist9792]

Happy Birthday 🎂 🎉 Lovely episode, the Decorations are beautiful. I especially like the St Paul's one. Glad you had a wonderful time on your birthday 🎆

[@cassiegerrard813]

🍰 happy birthday! Love your videos. Thank you x

[@Claire_Fenby]

Thank you for watching!

[@Jean-nv3zd]

Happy belated birthday Clare. Lovely video. Brought back so many happy memories for me. Thanks so much for taking me along with you.❤

[@Claire_Fenby]

Thank you for watching!

[@monica_has116lentilsand2cats]

Happy belated birthday, dear Claire! 🥂🎂🫖📚🎁

[@Claire_Fenby]

Thank you so much!

[@DeeDeeCatMom]

🎂Happy Birthday Claire!! Love the teapot btw 💕

[@MaryE171]

Happy birthday!! 🎂

[@zoobee]

looks like an absolutely elite weekend

[@chrissy1510]

Happy birthday Claire! Cheers to those of us who are still the same inside as we were when we were seven! I’m from Australia, and have just booked for my first trip to London this Christmas. 🎂

[@Claire_Fenby]

Cheers to you too! 💓

[@caitlancole9136]

🎂🎂🎂happy birthday!

[@mariat.3961]

Happy 🎂 Birthday! Best. Video. Ever! 😆🤭

[@Sarah_Naomi]

Happy birthday Claire! 🎂

[@Lynn_Ann_Jackson]

🎂Happy Birthday, Claire! So glad you had such a wonderful celebration! This was a lovely video (as always!!) with some more great book recommendations…I enjoyed every minute of it! The disdain for balloons seems to be shared by many - I thought it was just me!! Give me flowers (and cake!) any day!!💐🎂❤️

[@irinanka]

Happy Birthday! 🥳 I also went to the exhibition and got the poster, that painting of Katherine Parr is truly stunning! Would love to see your entire ornament collection, I have 5 of them 😄 And I agree, balloons are an annoying waste of space 🎂

[@jodyboone1169]

Happy Birthday! 🎂

[@sidonie18]

Happe birthday Claire 🎂

[@sandrawoodall6545]

Hi and a happy belated birthday to you . I also love anything to do with the Tudor history,I’ve recently read a book about Kathrine parr,and I’ve been to Sudeley castle to visit her home and also where she is buried. I wonder where you bought your pretty neckless. I would like one myself.😊

[@Claire_Fenby]

I love Sudeley! Thank you - my necklace was gifted by Tatty Devine

[@small_cat111]

happy birthday claire 🎂 🥳 🎉🎁 🎊 i love your videos. such a lovely vibe. your geekiness is my favourite... embrace it! you have the best style 🫖📖☔️🐈️👑 wishing you a very good year x

[@Claire_Fenby]

Thank you so much! That really means a lot 💓

[@badfaith4u]

Happy birthday and I loved your birthday hauls. The Six Wives exhibition looks incredible. 🍰🎁🎂🎉🎊💐🧁🥳

[@oliviac712]

Hope you had a very Happy Birthday Claire 🎂 It sounds like you had a blast! I'm super excited to add the Chapuys biography to my wishlist- thank you for bringing it to my attention 😃 As for Henry, he should just face the wall at Christmas. I have a Henry VIII coaster that I got from the Royal Armouries in Leeds and I take great pleasure in putting my mug on his face. Oh how the mighty are fallen Henry, you remorseless old toad!!

[@Claire_Fenby]

Definitely a toad 🐸

[@joyceredman2136]

Happy Birthday, Claire! Enjoyed your video. 🎂

[@irismoles9369]

Loved this video love the Tuder period thanks for book revue Happy Birthday what a great way to spend it This is the first time finding your channel will sub and binge watch your other videos🎂

[@Claire_Fenby]

Thank you! I hope you enjoy my videos ♥️

[@jodieoddie7171]

Great video! I’m going to the exhibition in September I can’t wait

[@Claire_Fenby]

What did you think? ❤️

[@jodieoddie7171]

@@Claire_Fenby loved it!

[@davidmccalip5759]

Happy Birthday Claire! Sounds like it was an enjoyable trip to London. Have a great week! 🎂

[@ladyfox6705]

Claire: "Feral in the Giftshop." Sounds like a great name for a band 😂 Love it! Glad you had a wonderful birthday, Claire ❤ with loads of lovely self-birthday presents and the incredible-looking exhibition! 👑🎂🎁📚 Love from NZ 👋

[@Claire_Fenby]

Feral in the gift(or book)shop is definitely one of my favourite pastimes!

[@ladyfox6705]

@@Claire_Fenby Me too! 😂

[@literarylayer]

Happy belated birthday 🎂 It feels good when you can treat yourself to something special 📚

[@bfranklin1052]

Happy birthday, Claire 🎂🫖 I loved the ornament haul. So lovely! I've only just met you this year, but have enjoyed every minute. I'm reading a novel that mentioned Hatchard's and thought, 'Oh, yes, Claire took us there." and could picture it all.

[@Claire_Fenby]

I love this! So glad you get to travel via my videos as well ❤️

[@barbaramccoy3592]

Happy happy birthday 🎂 This was such a delight. Thank you for sharing. Like you I am so excited about the film “Firebrand “ - I just love movies like that. (I still watch Elizabeth: The Golden Age …). Your “C” necklace is lovely. Did you see that the costume for Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing at the Globe includes THE “B” necklace? (The Globe theatre has a YT channel.). Anyway- delightful and gorgeous and than you.

[@Claire_Fenby]

Yes! I saw the clip from the Globe - what an amazing actor!

[@seonarella]

I have to be honest I have only just started watching your channel but I have really been enjoying the hauls and chintz and geekiness. These are the things that bring me joy too!

[@Claire_Fenby]

Thank you so much! I hope you enjoy my future videos too ❤️

[@areadersalmanacwithceleste1366]

Happy birthday, Claire 🎂! The Six Wives book is EVERYTHING! ❤ I love those Tudor Ornaments and in my Christmas video last December I shared my little Christmas tree with all of the Queens. They are each so beautiful! Katherine Parr is also my favorite Tudor Queen. So much packed into this video and I am hoping to visit London soon so some great suggestions for places to visit and things to see! Thank you!

[@Claire_Fenby]

Have you watched Firebrand? Parr is also one of my favourites

[@areadersalmanacwithceleste1366]

@@Claire_Fenby No! Is it about Parr? I’ll have to look it up!

[@Claire_Fenby]

It is! It’s just been released in UK cinemas

[@adelevye632]

Happy birthday! 🎂

[@Meroose]

A wonderful birthday to you, dear Claire 🎂. Once again, you've made me want to go to London. With all your videos, I'm beginning to have quite a long list of things to do there. I'll probably have to plan a trip lasting several weeks...☺

[@Claire_Fenby]

I hope you have a wonderful time! London is such a special city ✨

[@WaterBearReads]

🎂Happy Birthday!!!! I loved this birthday video! Thank you!

[@Claire_Fenby]

Yay! Thank you!

[@drnurulizzatibintimdfuadip1049]

Happy birthdayy 🎉 such a wonderful video

[@Claire_Fenby]

Thank you 🤗

[@watisuzana4532]

Happy Birthday 🎊 🎉🧁🎂

[@robyngrieve9665]

Love the tea pot.🍰

[@GinaStanyerBooks]

Happy birthday 🎂

[@Without_words1]

I just admire your lipstick shade! suits you so well, you look like a beautiful character from Agatha Christies books.

[@Claire_Fenby]

Thank you! Love a red lipstick 💄

[@Noorieke]

Happy birthday 🎉 (no cake emoji available to me 😂)

[@adrienne4028]

🎂🫖 Happy birthday!

[@janeandclementine]

I’m disappointed I’ll miss the Gallery Exhibition of the Six Wives, not arriving in London until Sep 24. But I am excited to have tickets to the musical The Six.

[@Claire_Fenby]

I hope you love Six! I'm going to see it next year 🎶

[@keef5543]

Just got back from a cancer research… might have bought the same tea pot

[@Claire_Fenby]

You definitely did!

[@keef5543]

@@Claire_Fenby nooo, I wouldn’t be so irresponsible with my money…

[@gen6249]

Can you tell me about the rings you wear, they always look so nice ❤️

[@Claire_Fenby]

Thank you! They're my engagement/wedding rings. This one is a second-hand opal one 💍

[@Ms.SpookyNerd]

Happy late birthday 🎂📚☕

[@MJ-in-Canada]

Embrace your geekiness!🎂🍰🥮🧁

[@TheWeepingBookworm]

Wonderful video! I am planning to launch a BookTube channel focusing on classics and Tudor history, so naturally I relate to you. We love the same historians. I just got The Waiting Game and can’t wait to start reading it. Do you know the Talking Tudors podcast?

[@Claire_Fenby]

Good luck with your channel! 📚 Starting an account was one of the best decisions I ever made both professionally and personally. Yes, the Talking Tudors are great!

[@TheWeepingBookworm]

@@Claire_FenbyThank you. I am hoping to launch at the end of October (Victober). Natalie did a great thing when she launched that podcast. I am currently taking her 365 Days With the Tudor Queens course, which I am enjoying very much. In January she is starting a year-long course called Tudor Wonder Women. You would probably love it.

[@Claire_Fenby]

A wonderful time to start! Her year-long courses look incredible but just not something I can afford at the moment. One day 🤞 My dream would be to go back and do another MA! Can’t stop studying 👩‍🎓

[@eprohoda]

thank yoou, you did gorgeous recording~ 🙂

[@LashingsOfVintage]

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[@couchpotato2655]

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[@zoemahon4749]

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[@ingaurban404]

Cake ❤

[@sueh3426]

🎂 🎉🎂

[@DarcyRussell-x1o]

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[@jacquiridley3443]

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[@leeallison3080]

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[@yoentreletrasypaginas]

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