The first event took place on Thursday 29th May 1533. It was a river procession down the Thames from Billingsgate to Greenwich Palace, where the Queen was picked up, and then on to the Tower of London where Anne would stay until the eve of her coronation.
The river procession comprised “some 120 large craft and 200 small ones” and included a wherry bearing a great dragon which was was “continually moving and casting wildfire” and another wherry bearing Anne Boleyn’s falcon badge. You can read all about the procession in my article 29 May 1533 – Anne Boleyn’s Coronation Pageantry Begins and you can find out more about the events of 1533 at The Events of 1533 – From Queen-in-waiting to Queen Consort. It must have looked similar to the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee procession in 2012 (see photo above) – an amazing spectacle.
