Anne Boleyn (born 1507?—died May 19, 1536, London, England) was the second wife of King Henry VIII of England and mother of Queen Elizabeth I. The events surrounding the annulment of Henry’s marriage to his first wife, Catherine of Aragon, and his marriage to Anne led him to break...
Anne Boleyn is played by Dorothy Tutin and is a pretty good physical match for what we know of Anne’s looks. She has dark hair, dark eyes, olive skin, and is not exactly pretty, but definitely interesting-looking. She stands out against the backdrop of pale English courtiers with her ...
In The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn Eric Ives provides the most detailed and convincing portrait we have of the queen. He reveals a person of intellect with a passion for the new culture of the Renaissance, a woman who made her way in a man's world by force of education and ...
When the pavement was lifted in the area thought to have been the resting place of Anne Boleyn, the bones of a female were found at a depth of about two feet, “not lying in the original order, but which had evidently for some reason or other been heaped together into a smaller space...
Towards the end you almost begin to feel sorry for the poor woman who played the game for all it was worth, but the King's caprices and her inability to have a son wrote her death warrant for her. It is too long, but still one of the best period dramas made on this topic. ...
Jodie Turner-Smith leads the British three-part miniseries 'Anne Boleyn,' about the final days of Henry VIII's second wife.
about the possibility of Mary’s pregnancy when the king named one of his ships in Mary’s honour. After Catherine’s birth, William Carey received several grants from Henry VIII – and the money provided from at least one of these grants continued to go to Mary Boleyn after his death. ...
Did Anne of Cleves have a baby? Anne of Cleves never had any children. She was married to Henry VIII for barely half a year and after their divorce she never remarried. This was probably for the best, as death in childbirth was a real risk for women in the 1500s.Who...
I am sure that Henry may have thought of Katherine in terms of her being his perfect wife; when he was not depressed or in a foul mood that is and complained about her, Cromwells death and just about everything; but the rose without a thorn story is the one romantic story of this ...
Anne Bradstreet continued to write poetry, focusing more on personal experience and everyday life. She edited ("corrected") her own version of the earlier works for republication, and after her death, a collection titledSeveral Poemsincluding many new poems and a new edition ofThe Tenth Musewas...