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Claire | July 30, 2010
Yes, you read the title correctly! Did you realise that Anne Boleyn “used her sexual stranglehold over Henry VIII to pursue the idea of religious reform” and “deployed her sexual power to become a ‘conspirator for Christ’ “? – aaaggghh, bump, bump – me banging my head on my desk and the stone wall behind
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Claire | July 28, 2010
On the 28th July 1540, not only was King Henry VIII marrying his fifth wife, Catherine Howard, but his former trusted adviser and Master Secretary, Thomas Cromwell was being beheaded as a traitor and heretic. Thomas Cromwell had been denied a trial, instead an Act of Attainder had been used against him. In “The Rise
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Claire | July 28, 2010
On this day in history, the 28th July 1540*, Henry VIII married Catherine Howard. Henry VIII was 49 and Catherine was about 20 and it was again a love match, well, on Henry’s side anyway. He had fallen in love with his fourth wife’s maid , a girl Starkey describes as “petite, plump, pretty and
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Claire | July 27, 2010
As part of my series on the Boleyn family, I wanted to consider George Boleyn and avenge the myth that he was nothing but a gambler, womaniser and libertine. The George Boleyn I have come to know and love through my research and that of my friend, Clare Cherry, was not the George we meet
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Claire | July 26, 2010
When I met Alison Weir a few weeks ago I asked her to sign a copy of her latest book, “The Captive Queen”, so that I could auction it here in aid of the Mary Rose 500 Appeal which The Anne Boleyn Files is supporting. The book is a brand new hardback and features Alison’s
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Claire | July 26, 2010
There was an interesting article in Saturday’s Daily Mail entitled “Anne Boleyn, harlot or heroine? Was she a scheming sexual predator, or a brave reformer who changed Britain for ever?” about Anne Boleyn, the myths surrounding her and Howard Brenton’s new play “Anne Boleyn” which is being performed at The Globe. While I applaud Brenton
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Claire | July 23, 2010
Today, I’m going to look at Sir Thomas Boleyn, Earl of Wiltshire, Earl of Ormonde and Viscount Rochford, the father of Queen Anne Boleyn and an important man at the court of King Henry VIII. Popular culture (“The Tudors”, “The Other Boleyn Girl” etc.) paints him as a cunning and manipulative man who will stop
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Claire | July 22, 2010
As you know, I was lucky enough to hear Alison Weir speak recently at the Mary Rose Museum, in aid of the Mary Rose 500 Appeal, and I have written a two part guest article over at the Tudor Tutor on Alison’s talk on “The Monstrous Regiment of Women: The Lives of Tudor Queens and
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