Posted By Claire on May 17, 2012
I wanted to create a way of people being able to commemorate the anniversary of Anne Boleyn’s execution and it dawned on me when I was sending a birthday e-card the other day that my wonderful techie husband could perhaps create an Anne Boleyn e-card.
I begged and batted my eye-lids (works every time!) and Tim spent long hours (bless that man!) making an animated e-card featuring Anne Boleyn, the Tower of London and my account of Anne’s execution from my book on Anne’s fall. I hope that you like it and that you feel happy sending it to other Tudor history lovers or people you want to tell about Anne’s execution.
You can find it on The Fall of Anne Boleyn website – click here or you can click on the image. It’s completely free to send.
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Posted By Claire on May 17, 2012
Today is the anniversary of the executions of Sir Henry Norris, Sir William Brereton, Sir Francis Weston, Mark Smeaton and George Boleyn, Lord Rochford. I find it a sad day because these men were innocent victims of a plot against the Queen. They were dragged into something they didn’t deserve to be and ended their days on a scaffold on Tower Hill, beheaded as traitors. Families lost sons, brothers and fathers that day and had to live with the stigma of being related to traitors, and not only that, traitors who had slept with the Queen!
What is worse is that they are forgotten or they are remembered as “libertines”, deviants, or, in Brereton’s case, as a Jesuit assassin! I will be thinking about these men today and remembering them for who they really were – successful courtiers, and, in George’s case, a talented poet and diplomat.
You can read about their executions in my timeline article at The Fall of Anne Boleyn website – click here.
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Just to let you know that our sister site, History Tours of Britain, has twenty tickets available for a private after-hours evening tour of the Tower of London followed by the historic Ceremony of the Keys on the 23rd June 2012. We are selling them in groups of five, which is a saving of £10
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The 16th May 1536 was a very busy day for Sir William Kingston, Constable of the Tower of London, as he prepared for the executions of Sir Henry Norris, Sir William Brereton, Sir Francis Weston, Mark Smeaton and George Boleyn, Lord Rochford, which had been scheduled for the following day. Kingston also had to deal
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On this day in history, 15th May 1536, Queen Anne Boleyn and her brother George Boleyn, Lord Rochford, were tried for treason in the Great Hall of the Tower of London in front of a jury of their peers. As you know, I have been researching Anne Boleyn’s life and fall for over three years
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On this day in 1536 there were two main events:- Jane Seymour was moved closer to the King Thomas Cromwell wrote to the King’s ambassadors in France to update them on the goings-on You can read the details in my post on The Fall of Anne Boleyn timeline – click here. I do hope you’re
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Happy Mother’s Day to those of you in countries celebrating it today. I hope that you get thoroughly pampered! Here is a photo of one of my Anne Boleyn roses for you to enjoy. These roses always seem to flower as I’m counting down to Anne Boleyn’s execution! See Anne Boleyn the Mother for a
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There were two main events on this day in 1536 and you can read about them in my timeline post over at The Fall of Anne Boleyn website – click here
