Claire | June 4, 2021
In this latest edition of my Fan Q&A series for the Anne Boleyn Files and Tudor Society YouTube channel, I’m answering Jessica’s question “Did Anne Boleyn bring French fashion to court herself or were others involved?” Anne Boleyn spent six years in France and was described by a contemporary as “native French” in her ways, […]
Category: Anne Boleyn Myths, Anne Boleyn Questions, Anne Queen Consort, appearance |
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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 | February 22, 2019
I have just published the latest instalment of my “Questions about Anne Boleyn” series on the Anne Boleyn Files and Tudor Society YouTube channel. This one answers the question “What did Anne Boleyn look like?”. In my video talk, I look at Nicholas Sander’s description of her from 1585 and then look at how Anne […]
Category: Anne Boleyn Questions, appearance |
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Claire | May 4, 2017
Phew! It’s been an exciting few days! My scheduled work has gone out of the window and I’ve been debating a 16th-century image and doing research related to it. Schedule be gone! This is much more exciting! If you’ve missed it all, this story all started on Tuesday 25th April when art historian and author […]
Category: art, Anne Queen Consort, appearance |
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Tags: Anne Boleyn image, Anne Boleyn Lady of the Garter, Lady of the Garter image, Roland Hui
Claire | May 3, 2017
You may remember that last week I shared an article by art historian and author Roland Hui regarding an image from The Black Book of the Garter attributed to Lucas Horenbout, which Roland Hui believed might well be Anne Boleyn. Roland made the following points: The Black Book was created in 1534, while Henry VIII […]
Category: art, Anne Queen Consort, appearance |
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Tags: Anne Boleyn image, Anne Boleyn Lady of the Garter, Anne Boleyn portraits, Anne Boleyn portraiture, Lady of the Garter image, Roland Hui
Claire | April 26, 2017
Thank you to art historian Roland Hui for letting me know about an article he has just written on his blog. The article is about an image in the Black Book of the Garter, a beautiful illumination of a queen consort presiding over a meeting of the Order of the Garter. As Roland says, in […]
Category: art, Anne Queen Consort, appearance |
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Claire | June 7, 2016
I’m not sure how it started, but a photo of a wax model of Queen Anne Boleyn keeps being shared in social media as a facial reconstruction of Anne Boleyn, done from her skull. I keep commenting to correct this, but it doesn’t seem to change anything, so I thought I’d write this post. Please […]
Category: Anne Boleyn General, appearance, art, Representations of Anne Boleyn |
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Claire | April 14, 2016
On Sunday 10th April 2016 Anne Boleyn hit the news with articles in the Sunday Times and Mail Online claiming that a copy of a lost portrait of Anne Boleyn had been found by Alison Weir.1 Now, this wasn’t news to everyone as Weir had shared her eBay find on her Facebook page and that […]
Category: Representations of Anne Boleyn, Anne Boleyn General, appearance, art, News |
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Tags: Anne Boleyn, Anne Boleyn portraits, Lady Bergavenny portrait, lost portrait of Anne Boleyn