To Die For by Sandra Byrd Promotion

| May 22, 2012

To Die For by Sandra Byrd Promotion

Just a quick post to alert you to the fact that the Kindle version of Sandra Byrd’s wonderful novel To Die For: A Novel of Anne Boleyn is available this week and next week for just $2.99 on Amazon.com – bargain! Many of you will remember that I reviewed To Die For when it first
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Anne Boleyn’s Fall and Me

| May 21, 2012

Anne Boleyn’s Fall and Me

As you know, I was counting down, day by day, to Anne Boleyn’s execution on The Fall of Anne Boleyn timeline. Well, by this time in 1536 Anne was dead and gone and was about to be replaced by a new queen. I do have more articles to add to The Fall site, but I
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Anne Boleyn Day Competition 2012 Winner

| May 19, 2012

Anne Boleyn Day Competition 2012 Winner

Thank you to all those of you who entered our 2012 Anne Boleyn Day competition. We had 44 entries in all so the judges were very busy! The judges were aware that many entries were written by those who had English as a second language and so the entries were judged on content, the story
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Free Kindle Book – The Fall of Anne Boleyn: A Countdown – 2 Day Promotion

| May 18, 2012

To commemorate the anniversary of Anne Boleyn’s execution I am listing the Kindle version of my book The Fall of Anne Boleyn: A Countdown for $0.00 on Amazon US, Amazon UK and Amazon’s international sites today and tomorrow, the 18th and 19th May. Now, I know that many of you will already have it (thank
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Anne Boleyn E-card

| May 17, 2012

Anne Boleyn E-card

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
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Tickets for Private Evening Tour of Tower of London and Ceremony of the Keys Available

| May 16, 2012

Tickets for Private Evening Tour of Tower of London and Ceremony of the Keys Available

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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Anne Boleyn Day Competition 2012

| May 4, 2012

Anne Boleyn Day Competition 2012

It’s time for our annual Anne Boleyn Day competition, a competition we hold to commemorate the anniversary of Anne Boleyn’s execution on the 19th May 1536. This year, I’m giving you two choices on what to write about:- An account of Anne Boleyn’s execution from the point of view of the executioner – You could
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1st May 1536 – May Day Joust

| May 1, 2012

1st May 1536 – May Day Joust

What should have been a fun day, a celebration, turned into a nightmare for Sir Henry Norris, Henry VIII’s Groom of the Stool and good friend. The day started well, with Norris leading the defenders and George Boleyn the challengers, but then Norris’s horse refused to run. Fortunately, this did not ruin the joust because
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