Using a mirror box, the concurrent stroking of the lateral side of the fifth finger behind the mirror along with stroking the empty space next to the mirror-reflected hand's fifth finger results in a strong sense of having a sixth finger鈥攖he Anne Boleyn illusion. We used this illusion ...
Later in the novel, at Anne Boleyn’s fall, Madge Shelton tells Mary Boleyn of how Jane was interrogated the longest and that she wrote and signed a statement. Madge goes on to say, “It was after she had spoken to them that we all had to go in again and they were asking about Ge...
It’s about as reliable as Nicholas Sanders writing that Anne Boleyn had a sixth finger, to be taken with a huge pinch of salt. We have to be careful with sources written much later and see an agenda within them. There are no contemporary sources to support allegations of ruthlessness by...
Anne Boleyn and her creator, Emily Pooley The final moment and most satisfying for me, was placing Anne Boleyn’s infamous ‘B’ necklace around her neck. I had vowed that I would not put the necklace on her unless I felt my work was worthy of representing the infamous Anne Boleyn....
With Anne Boleyn beheaded, the malicious gossip multiplied, somehow combining an insatiable sexual with any amount of physical deformities, including a goitre, a third nipple, a sixth finger, and a tooth that projected from beneath her lower lips. It is this gossip that persists today, in ...