26 May 1536 – Mary asks for Cromwell’s help
On 26th May 1536, one week after her stepmother’s execution, Henry VIII’s daughter Mary wrote to Thomas Cromwell…
Anne Queen Consort
23 May 1533 – The annulment of Henry VIII’s marriage to Catherine of Aragon
Now we’re leaving the “bloody days” of 1536 and going back in time to 1533 when Anne Boleyn…
18 April 1536 – Chapuys does Anne Boleyn “reverence”
On 18th April 1536, just a month and a day before Anne Boleyn’s execution, Eustace Chapuys, the imperial…
12 April 1533 – Anne Boleyn “went to mass in Royal state”
On Saturday 12 April 1533, Easter Eve, Anne Boleyn attended mass in the Queen’s Closet of Greenwich Palace…
11 April 1533 – Anne Boleyn the Queen
Good Friday 1533, the 11th April, was a big day for Anne Boleyn because it was on that…
9 April 1533 – Catherine of Aragon to “abstain from the title of Queen”
On 9th April 1533, a delegation of Henry VIII’s councillors, headed by Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk,…
23 March 1534 – The First Act of Succession
On the very same day that the Pope pronounced sentence on Henry VIII’s marriage to Catherine of Aragon,…