The Anne Boleyn Files

Claire | May 13, 2012

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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Category: Anne Boleyn Personality | 7 Comments »
Tags: Anne Boleyn the mother, mother, mother's day

Claire | January 3, 2012

On this day in history, 3rd January 1521, Pope Leo X issued the papal bull Decet Romanum Pontificem excommunicating Reformer, German priest and professor of theology Martin Luther from the Catholic Church. The Pope had asked Luther to retract his Ninety-Five Theses (full name: The Ninety-Five Theses on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences or
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Category: Anne Boleyn Personality, The Boleyns, The Reformation | 12 Comments »
Tags: Anne Boleyn's faith, Anne Boleyn's religion, faith, Martin Luther, Protestant, Protestantism, religion, The Reformation

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 | 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 | August 12, 2011

The following review of Howard Brenton’s play “Anne Boleyn”, which was performed recently at Shakespeare’s Globe in London is written by Anne Boleyn Files visitor, Laura Pearson – Thanks so much, Laura! Anne Boleyn at Shakespeare’s Globe “It’s my Bible! Why? Don’t you realise? This killed me! This book!” Howard Brenton’s Anne Boleyn, directed by
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Category: Anne Boleyn Personality, News, Representations of Anne Boleyn, The Reformation | 15 Comments »
Tags: Anne Boleyn play, Howard Brenton, Shakespeare's Globe

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 | May 5, 2011

Back to the present day (no Lady Claire or Sir Tim) and a look at Anne Boleyn’s state of mind on this day in 1536, three days after her arrest and two weeks before her execution. Unfortunately, Sir William Kingston’s report to Cromwell on that day was badly damaged in the AshburnamHouse fire of 1731
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Category: Anne Boleyn Fall, Anne Boleyn Personality, Events of 1536 | 16 Comments »
Tags: Anne Boleyn, Anne Boleyn's ladies, imprisonment, ladies-in-waiting, Sir William Kingston, Tower of London

Claire | April 21, 2011

Dr Sarah Morris, who is writing a novel on Anne Boleyn, has written a guest post for the On the Tudor Trail website arguing that Anne Boleyn’s “incredible courage and profound serenity in the face of her imminent oblivion” could be the result of a phenomenon which Steve Taylor, a transpersonal psychologist, calls Suffering Induced
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Category: Anne Boleyn Execution, Anne Boleyn Personality | 42 Comments »
Tags: Anne Boleyn Execution, Anne Boleyn's faith, beheading, death of Anne Boleyn, execution, faith, religion, SITEs