10 May 1536 – Bring Up the Bodies
Hampton Court Palace, where some of the alleged offences were said to have been committed. On 10th May…
Henry Norris
8 May 1536 – The Vultures Descend
Henry Fitzroy, Duke of Richmond and Somerset On 8th May 1536, just over a week after the first…
3 May 1536 – Sir William Kingston Reports Back to Cromwell on Anne Boleyn
Thomas Cromwell On 3rd May 1536, Sir William Kingston, Constable of the Tower of London, wrote his first…
1 May 1536 – Henry VIII Abandons Anne Boleyn at the May Day Joust
Queen Anne Boleyn attended the traditional May Day joust at Greenwich Palace on 1st May 1536 with her…
29 April 1536 – A Sulk and an Argument
On 29th April 1536, Queen Anne Boleyn had two encounters which would be twisted and used as evidence…
17 May 1536 – Five Executions on Tower Hill
The scaffold memorial at Tower Hill. "These bloody days have broken my heart", wrote the famous Tudor poet,…
16 May 1536 – George Boleyn, Sir Francis Weston, Sir Henry Norris, William Brereton and Mark Smeaton Prepare for Death
A portait of a man thought to be Sir Francis Weston. On this day in 1536, the five…