11 March 2026
Something that is tawdry is cheap and gaudy. The word comes from the story of Æþelðryþ (Æthelthryth), also known as Audrey, the daughter of Anna, a seventh-century king of East Anglia. Æthelthryth’s tale is recounted by Bede in his eighth-century Ecclesiastical History and by Ælfric in
