8 December – The Feast of the Immaculate Conception
Here in Spain, and in many other Catholic countries, today is a public holiday because it is the…
Anne Queen Consort
The Second Sunday of Advent – What Anne Boleyn would have read
Following on from last Sunday’s post regarding Anne’s ownership of an illuminated manuscript of French Reformer Jacques Lefèvre…
The First Sunday of Advent – What Anne Boleyn would have read
Anne Boleyn owned an illuminated manuscript of French Reformer Jacques Lefèvre d’Étaples’ “Epistres et Evangiles pour les cinquante…
14 November 1532 – The Marriage of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn?
Although we know that Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn had a private, and rather secret, marriage ceremony on…
16 October 1532 – The Meeting with the Great Mayster of Fraunce
On 16th October, while Anne Boleyn and Henry VIII were lodged in Calais, the Duke of Norfolk, Earl…
10 September 1533 – Christening of the future Elizabeth I
On Wednesday 10 September 1533, three days after her birth, Princess Elizabeth, daughter of Henry VIII and Anne…
7 September 1533 – Birth of Elizabeth I, daughter of Anne Boleyn and Henry VIII
At 3pm on 7th September, less than two weeks after she had taken to her chamber at Greenwich…