I decided to look up more information on Agnes Strickland, whose series of books, The Lives of the Queens of England are used by many historians as a resource of information about, well, the Queens of England, including our own beloved Anne.

Imagine my very great surprise, when I saw, in the rather sparse Wikipedia article about Ms. Strickland, the picture in this link:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wi….._Hayes.jpg

Is it just me, or does Ms. Strickland bear a strong resemblance to some of the portraits of Anne? Maybe it is just the sci fi/fantasy/mythology buff in me, but she looks as if she could be some distant relation to Anne – which would be fitting, that she would provide so much information about the Queens of England, including Anne. Especially considering some of the tart words she used in describing Jane Seymour as less than saintly.

A direct quote by Agnes Strickland, from Karen Lindsey's “Divorced, Beheaded, Survived”:

“The wedding cake must have been baking, the wedding dinner providing, the wedding clothes preparing, while the life blood was yet running warm in the veins of the victim whose place was to be rendered vacant by a violent death.”

Meow!

How fitting then, that Ms. Strickland seems to bear a passing resemblance to Anne Boleyn!