The Anne Boleyn Files

Claire | December 1, 2011

What’s going on?! Recently my inbox has been full of emails, comments, contact forms etc. telling me, in no uncertain terms and sometimes not very politely, that Anne Boleyn was nothing but a home-wrecking, usurping, b***ch and whore who deserved everything she got for single-handedly wrecking Henry VIII’s marriage to Catherine of Aragon and making
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Category: Anne Boleyn Myths, Anne Boleyn Personality, Representations of Anne Boleyn | 198 Comments »
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Claire | November 23, 2011

This article has been inspired by the tens of emails I’ve received recently and also comments on Facebook and online about Elizabeth Boleyn’s alleged affair with King Henry VIII and the possibility that Henry actually committed incest by marrying his own daughter, Anne Boleyn. I’m not sure what exactly has stirred up this recent interest
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Category: Anne Boleyn Myths, Henry VIII, Myths and Legends, The Boleyns | 38 Comments »
Tags: Anne Boleyn, Elizabeth Boleyn, Elizabeth Howard, Henry VIII's mistresses, John Skelton, Thomas Boleyn

Claire | October 11, 2011

Apologies for the absence of Anne Boleyn articles recently but I’ve been busy immersing myself in Letters and Papers and the Calendar of State Papers for Spain trying to find something that has been bugging me for the past few weeks. When something bugs me, I’m like a dog with a bone and I just
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Category: Anne Boleyn Myths, Anne Boleyn Personality, Early Life, Marriage, Myths and Legends, Representations of Anne Boleyn | 78 Comments »
Tags: Anne Boleyn, corruption, Early Life, France, Francis I, French court, myth, reputation

Claire | September 16, 2011

Just a quick reminder about a webinar I will be doing next Thursday, the 22nd September. This is the first in a series of webinars I will be doing for Anne Boleyn Fellowship members and Part 1 is on George and Jane Boleyn, examining who they really were in contrast to the way they are
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Category: Anne Boleyn Myths, Books, George Boleyn, Jane Boleyn, Myths and Legends, News, The Boleyns | 14 Comments »
Tags: George Boleyn, Jane Boleyn, Jane Parker, Jane Rochford, webinar

Claire | August 30, 2011

Anne Boleyn Files visitor, Tina, has kindly alerted me to the blurb of Carolly Erickson’s upcoming book, “The Favored Queen”, which is due out on the 27th September. It is described as “a powerful and moving novel about Jane Seymour, third wife of Henry VIII, who married him only days after the execution of Anne Boleyn
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Category: Anne Boleyn Myths, Books, Representations of Anne Boleyn | 94 Comments »
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Claire | August 12, 2011

I keep receiving emails regarding this question so I’m wondering if it’s an essay question in a history course! It is an interesting question and has really got me thinking. It is also something that I know author Susan Bordo is addressing in her next book, working title “The Creation of Anne Boleyn” – see
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Category: Anne Boleyn Myths, Anne Boleyn Personality, Representations of Anne Boleyn | 13 Comments »
Tags: Anne Boleyn, image, perceptions, representations

Claire | July 4, 2011

Claire is angry – watch out! Claire has got her soap box in hand and is about to get on to her high horse and is writing in the third person so something must have really ‘got her goat’, as they say in England. OK, so back to first person… I am soooooo annoyed. Eliza
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Category: Anne Boleyn Myths, Anne Boleyn Places, Books, Early Life, Representations of Anne Boleyn | 60 Comments »
Tags: Anne Boleyn, Early Life, France, myths, Nicholas Sander

Claire | May 6, 2011

The following letter has today fallen into our hands, here at The Anne Boleyn Files, and we are told that it is a copy of one written by Queen Anne Boleyn to her husband, King Henry VIII, on this very day, 6th May 1536. Here is a transcript:- “To the King from the Lady in
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Category: Anne Boleyn Fall, Anne Boleyn Myths, Events of 1536, Myths and Legends | 24 Comments »
Tags: 1536, Anne Boleyn letter, The Lady in the Tower, Tower of London, writing