A Gift Fit for a King – Anne Boleyn’s New Year Gift to Henry VIII
Giving gifts at Christmas is a relatively modern phenomenon, even here in Spain the gifts come from the…
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Anne Boleyn and Henry VIII’s Marriage: Doomed from the Start?
As I said in my article "A Timeline of Anne Boleyn’s Relationship with Henry VIII – From 1528-1533",…
A Timeline of Anne Boleyn’s Relationship with Henry VIII – From 1528-1533
As I said in my post "Henry VIII Falls in Love with Anne Boleyn", Eric Ives gives a…
A Queen Catherine and a Commoner Too
You can't have missed yesterday's big news, that of the official engagement between Prince William and Catherine Middleton…
Anne Boleyn’s Letter to Cromwell – A Show of Support for Reform
Thank you to Olivia Peyton for alerting me to this letter from Queen Anne Boleyn to Thomas Cromwell,…
Holbein’s The Ambassadors: A Renaissance Puzzle – Part Three: Jupiter and Change
As a result of my previous two articles on Hans Holbein the Younger's "The Ambassadors", my good friend…
The Birth of Elizabeth I
On this day in history, 7th September 1533, Anne Boleyn gave birth to a daughter, the future Queen…