Claire | March 9, 2017
Thank you to Lissa Chapman, author of Anne Boleyn in London, for sharing this guest article with us today. Rose Lok lived to be a very old lady. For a Londoner born in the reign of Henry VIII, to attain the age of eighty-six was in itself an extraordinary achievement. And Rose lived an extraordinary […]
Category: Anne Queen Consort, The Reformation, Tudor Characters, Tudor Costume |
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Tags: Anne Boleyn's clothes, Anne Boleyn's mercer, Anne Boleyn's silkwomen, Anne Boleyn's style, Rose Lok, William Lok
Claire | January 15, 2013
On this day in history, 15th January 1569, Lady Catherine Knollys (née Carey), wife of Sir Francis Knollys, daughter of Mary Boleyn and mother of Lettice Dudley, died at Hampton Court Palace. Catherine had been taken ill with a fever at Christmas and her husband, who was at Bolton Castle, where Mary, Queen of Scots […]
Category: Mary Boleyn, The Boleyns, Tudor Costume |
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Tags: Catherine Carey, Catherine Knollys, Katherine Carey, Katherine Knollys, Mary Boleyn
Claire | November 7, 2011
Thank you to all those who sent me photos for the Halloween Competition, we had such a hard time judging it as you all looked wonderful. You’re all so creative and beautiful! And the winner of the Anne Boleyn Files Halloween Competition 2011 Competition is…drumroll…fanfare… Sheena Reekie as Queen Elizabeth I, with her trusty sidekick […]
Category: News, Tudor Costume, Tudor Jewellery |
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Tags: competition, Halloween, Tudor dress
Claire | June 7, 2011
Just to let you know that The Tudors Courtly Couture Collection is now back on view at The Mary Rose Museum in Portsmouth. Here are the details:- The Tudors – Courtly Couture Collection Monday 6th June – Friday 30th September Royal gowns worn in the hit TV series “The Tudors” are now back on display […]
Category: News, The Tudors, Tudor Costume |
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Tags: Mary Rose 500 Appeal, Mary Rose museum, The Tudors
Claire | March 31, 2011
In an article entitled “Henry VIII: Dressed to Kill” in the fashion section of today’s Telegraph newspaper, Joan Bergin, costumer designer for “The Tudors” TV series, discusses how she “looked to Holbein, Degas and the Rolling Stones to create more than 2,000 lavish outfits for the hit series”, as well as studying the reports of […]
Category: The Tudors, Tudor Costume |
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Tags: The Tudors
Claire | March 31, 2011
Our Anne Boleyn Pembroke Dress, Pembroke Hood and gold-plated B Necklace have just hit the stage in a play called “Tower Ghosts” by Tom Marcello and performed by the Case High Theatre Company. The play was performed at the preliminary and semi-final levels of the Massachusetts Educational Theatre Guild competition and won many awards so […]
Category: News, Tudor Costume |
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Tags: Anne Boleyn dress, Anne Boleyn gown, Tudor Costume, Tudor dress
Claire | February 2, 2011
On the 17th February 2011 The Anne Boleyn Files celebrates its 2nd birthday and I also have a special birthday this month, so I thought it would be good to celebrate these wonderful milestones with an article competition. I would like you to write an article on the following question: “Did the life and death […]
Category: Anne Boleyn General, News, Tudor Costume |
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Tags: Anne Boleyn dress, competition, Tudor Costume
Claire | January 19, 2011
Here at The Anne Boleyn Files, we have been supporting the Mary Rose 500 Appeal, an appeal to raise funds for the new Mary Rose museum project. As part of the fundraising, the Mary Rose museum has been having a series of events and their latest event is an exhibition of some of the costumes […]
Category: News, The Tudors, Tudor Costume |
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Tags: Mary Rose, Mary Rose 500 Appeal, The Tudors