Claire | May 31, 2023
Anne Boleyn used a white falcon as her royal badge, but it wasn’t the only device she used… You can find out more about Anne Boleyn’s falcon badge in my article Anne Boleyn’s Badge.
Claire | May 16, 2023
This week’s Anne Boleyn portrait is the 1534 medal, a contemporary image of Anne Boleyn. See http://www.lucychurchill.com/anne-boleyn-moost-happi-medal-reconstruction/ for more on Lucy Churchill’s reconstruction of the medal.
Claire | May 3, 2023
Find out about a special New Year’s gift Anne Boleyn commissioned from Hans Holbein the Younger for Henry VIII in my short video below and/or click on the links to articles I’ve written to read more about it. Read my articles: Anne Boleyn and Hans Holbein Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn’s New Year’s Gifts
Claire | April 12, 2023
Yesterday, Tim and I said a final goodbye to our 15-year-old dog, Boni. She’d been diagnosed with bladder cancer and was having problems so we made that awful heart-breaking decision to let her go before things got really bad. It never gets easier saying goodbye to a beloved pet, a member of the family, and […]
Claire | January 25, 2023
On this day in Tudor history, 25th January 1533, about six years after Anne Boleyn had accepted King Henry VIII’s proposal of marriage, the couple got married in a secret ceremony at Whitehall. Anne Boleyn, Marquess of Pembroke, was about thirty-one when she married forty-one-year-old Henry VIII in a ceremony officiated by Rowland Lee. Read […]
Claire | December 23, 2022
On this day in Tudor history, 23rd December 1556, in the reign of Queen Mary I, Nicholas Udall (Yevedale) was buried at St Margaret’s Church, Westminster. Udall was a schoolmaster, cleric, humanist and playwright, and he wrote a ballad for Queen Anne Boleyn’s coronation celebrations in 1533. His ballad was about Anne Boleyn’s falcon badge… […]
Claire | December 8, 2022
On this day in Tudor history, 8th December 1538, in the reign of King Henry VIII, Sir William Coffin died at Standon in Hertfordshire. The courtier and Master of the Horse to Queens Anne Boleyn and Jane Seymour is thought to have died of the plague because his wife Margaret wrote in a letter to […]
Claire | November 14, 2022
On this day in Tudor history, 14th November 1501, the Feast of St Erkenwald, Catherine of Aragon, daughter of Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile, married Arthur Tudor, Prince of Wales, eldest son of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York. The couple got married at St Paul’s Cathedral in London. And on […]
