Claire | February 5, 2021
In this edition of my series on “Questions about Anne Boleyn”, I consider which colours Anne Boleyn liked. It’s impossible to say what Anne Boleyn’s favourite colour was, but we do know the colours Anne chose to wear and the colours she chose for fabrics for Elizabeth’s nursery and clothes. Find out which colour fabrics […]
Category: Anne Boleyn Questions, appearance, Tudor Costume |
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Claire | August 9, 2020
In this latest edition of my Questions about Anne Boleyn series, I answer questions that I’m regularly asked about Queen Anne Boleyn’s execution, which took place 19th May 1536. What were the charges against Anne Boleyn? When was Anne Boleyn executed? Where was Anne Boleyn executed? Who was at Anne Boleyn’s execution? Which ladies attended […]
Category: Anne Boleyn Execution, Anne Boleyn Questions, Events of 1536 |
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Claire | June 19, 2020
I can’t quite believe that I’m even handling these two questions, but this is 2020 after all! Yes, my inbox, my Messenger box and my YouTube channel are full of emails regarding a ‘theory’ (see how polite I’m being there!) that Anne Boleyn survived her execution and that a man is claiming to be descended […]
Category: Anne Boleyn Myths, Anne Boleyn Questions |
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Claire | January 29, 2020
I’ve been doing a “Questions about Anne Boleyn” series on the Anne Boleyn Files & Tudor Society YouTube Channel and so far I’ve done 23 videos: Did Henry VIII love Anne Boleyn? January 24 – Henry VIII’s jousting accident – just how serious was it? Did Anne Boleyn miscarry a deformed foetus? Who was Mary […]
Category: Anne Boleyn General, Anne Boleyn Questions |
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Claire | June 18, 2019
In today’s instalment of my “Questions about Anne Boleyn” series, I consider the relationship between Anne Boleyn and her stepdaughter, Mary, daughter of King Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon. Anne Boleyn is often blamed for the ill-treatment Mary received in the 1530s, being painted as a wicked stepmother, so I look at how Mary […]
Category: Anne Boleyn Myths, Anne Boleyn Personality, Anne Boleyn Questions, Mary I |
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Tags: Anne Boleyn and Mary I, Henry VIII and Mary I, Mary I ill treatment
Claire | April 18, 2019
In today’s instalment of my video series “Questions about Anne Boleyn”, I consider the other men (apart from the obvious man, Henry VIII) that Anne Boleyn was involved with or linked to. In Part 1, I looked at James Butler and Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland, and in Part 2, I consider poet and diplomat […]
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Claire | April 12, 2019
In today’s instalment of my video series “Questions about Anne Boleyn”, I consider the other men (apart from the obvious man, Henry VIII!) that Anne Boleyn was involved with or linked to. In Part 1, I look at the negotiations to marry Anne Boleyn off to James Butler of Ireland, and then Anne’s romance with […]
Category: Anne Boleyn Questions |
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Tags: Anne Boleyn questions, Henry Percy, James Butler, Questions about Anne Boleyn
Claire | April 4, 2019
Yes, you read that right! The question that I am answering in the latest video of my “Questions about Anne Boleyn” series is “Was Anne Boleyn sent abroad because of her scandalous behaviour?” In my video, I explain what provoked people to send me emails asking me this question, where the idea that Anne Boleyn […]
Category: Anne Boleyn Myths, Anne Boleyn Questions, Early Life |
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Tags: Anne Boleyn and France, Anne Boleyn reputation, Anne Boleyn scandal, Nicholas Sander