Catherine was the daughter of Mary Boleyn, the sister of Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII’s second queen. She was born during Mary Boleyn’s marriage to William Carey — a man of good birth but not high in the Tudor hierarchy who closely served Henry VIII in his private chambers. The years put...
Jane Parker or Mrs George Boleyn has gone down in history as the woman who accused her husband and sister-in-law of incest. She was also the woman who connived to allow Katherine Howard to meet her lover Thomas Culpepper- resulting in Katherine being executed and Henry VIII changing the la...
Oberon was the first woman of color to play Anne Boleyn. Turner-Smith won’t be the last. As soon as this September, Filipino Canadian actressAndrea Macasaetis set to step into the role for the Broadway production ofSix, a pop musical based on the lives of the Tudor king’s si...
Interesting Facts about the Boleyn Family 36 thoughts on “17 November 1558 – The Queen is dead! Long live the Queen!” Michael Wright says: November 17, 2017 at 9:41 am I have much pity for Mary. Thanks to what was going on between her parents her life was a mess. The two ...
Anne Boleyn, second wife of 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 with the Roman Catholic Church