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Claire | March 1, 2012
On this day in history, on the evening of 1st March 1522 (Shrove Tuesday), Anne Boleyn played the part of Perseverance in the Château Vert pageant. You can read all about this pageant in my article “The Early Life of Anne Boleyn Part Six – The Château Vert Pageant” – it sounds an amazing spectacle.
Claire | January 27, 2012
Today we have a guest post, the first in a series, on Anne Boleyn’s sister, Mary. Thank you so much to Sarah Bryson for writing this series for us! Mary Boleyn: The Unknown Sister – Part One: Birth Over the next few weeks/months I will be looking at Mary Boleyn’s life and trying to explore
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Claire | January 10, 2012
On this day in history, 10th January 1480, Margaret of Austria (Princess of Asturias and Duchess of Savoy) was born to her parents Maximilian of Austria and Mary of Burgundy. Margaret was their second child and was named after her maternal stepgrandmother, Margaret of York, Duchess of Burgundy and third wife of Charles the Bold
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Claire | December 21, 2011
On this day in history, 21st December 1549, Marguerite of Navarre (also known as Margaret of Navarre, Marguerite of Angoulême and Marguerite de France) died in Odos in France at the age of 57. Marguerite was the daughter of Charles de Valois-Orléans, Comte d’Angoulême, and Louise of Savoy, and the sister of King Francis I
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Claire | October 13, 2011
On this day in history, 13th October… 1499 – Birth of Queen Claude of France, wife of Francis I and eldest daughter of Louis XII of France and Anne of Brittany. Anne Boleyn served her in France. You can read more about Claude in the following articles:- The Early Life of Anne Boleyn Part Three
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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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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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Claire | March 17, 2011
As today is St Patrick’s Day – Happy St Patrick’s Day to all our Irish visitors! – I thought it was only fitting to look at Anne Boleyn’s Irish roots. “Anne Boleyn was Irish?!”, I hear you cry! Well, yes, to be sure (sorry!) she did have some Irish blood as her paternal grandmother, Lady
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