Anne Boleyn, the woman whom he was courting, adopted the motto “Ainsi sera, groigne qui groigne”, which roughly translates from French to “Let them grumble, this is the way it’s going to be”. Anne had her servants’ livery embroidered...
Anne begins to realize that she’s being pushed into Henry’s bed by her scheming Boleyn relations. In one memorable scene, Anne’s sister Mary, heavily pregnant with Henry’s child, snipes at Anne to not make the same mistake she did in becoming Henry’s mistress because, ...
“Automatically, when we think of the Tudor woman we tend to think of King Henry VIII’s wives, ladies in waiting or mistresses like Lady Jane Parker and Mary Boleyn. Yet so many women played a vital role, and they are lesser known but those who are more widely known don’t get enoug...
Anne Boleyngot all the attention for ages. Something about a break with the Catholic Church and the Reformation, perhaps? Historical manic pixie dream girlJane Seymourgot an award-winning book andTV seriesnamed after her family’s house (even if the story was all about Cromwell).Catherine of ...
Anne is a young, 21st century woman in the midst of a life-long love affair with the 16th Century and the enigmatic Anne Boleyn. Whilst indulging her secret passion on an exclusive ‘Anne Boleyn Connoisseurs’ Weekend’, she is taken seriously ill at Hever Castle. Falling into a deep state...
On the First Day of Christmas, My True Read Love to Me. from Real-Life Spy Drama to the Last Days of Anne Boleyn, Our Guest Reviewers Name Their Books of 2012CRAIG BROWNWith all those half-hearted centenary documentaries, not to mention Julian Fellowes's disastrous mini-series, who could...
Anne Boleyn In March 1545 she was arrested on suspicion of heresy. She was questioned about a book she was carrying that had been written by John Frith, a Protestant priest who had been burnt for heresy in 1533, for claiming that neither purgatory nor transubstantiation could be proven by ...
I was fortunate enough last week to see her memorial tile on the floor of the Chapel of St Peter ad Vincula near the altar when we paid our respects to Anne Boleyn on the anniversary of her execution. I think each of us paused and thought of the many victims buried there and ...
and dishonour to become the first Tudor Queen, bringing peace and order to England after years of civil war. From there, the reader is taken through the parade of Henry VIII’s six wives - two of whom, Anne Boleyn and Katheryn Howard, would lose their heads against a backdrop of intrigu...
Fraser writes of being inserted by Galyon Hone, the King’s glazier, at Rochester, and quickly removed in 1542 after Katherine’s fall, may well have been a cipher like the “HA” ciphers (Henry and Anne) that Henry tried to get removed from Hampton Court Palace after Anne Boleyn’s ...