April 12 – Anne Boleyn causes quite a stir and the not-so-nice Earl of Oxford
Posted By Claire on April 12, 2022
On this day in Tudor history, 12th April 1533, Anne Boleyn made her very first public appearance as King Henry VIII’s official queen consort.
Anne made quite an entrance!
Accompanied by sixty ladies and “loaded with jewels”, she processed to Easter Eve mass at Greenwich Palace, setting tongues wagging.
Hear an account of this event…
Also on this day in Tudor history, 12th April 1550, in the reign of King Edward VI, courtier and poet, Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, was born.
In this video I introduce the earl and talk about his not-so-nice personality, the Oxfordian theory regarding the works of William Shakespeare, and the idea that Oxford was actually Elizabeth I’s son by Thomas Seymour…
Other articles you might be interested in:
10 March – John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford’s role in the Wars of the Roses, and Henry VIII and a nasty jousting accident
12 April 1533 – Anne Boleyn causes quite a stir
5 December – Mary Queen of Scots’ husband dies of an ear infection and Anne Cecil’s unhappy marriage
19 January – Henry Herbert, 2nd Earl of Pembroke and Execution of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
16 December – The death of George Grey, 2nd Earl of Kent, and the birth of Catherine of Aragon
March 15 – Henry VIII uses foul language and The Lady Mary causes a stir in London
