Claire | May 3, 2023
Find out about a special New Year’s gift Anne Boleyn commissioned from Hans Holbein the Younger for Henry VIII in my short video below and/or click on the links to articles I’ve written to read more about it. Read my articles: Anne Boleyn and Hans Holbein Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn’s New Year’s Gifts
Category: Anne Boleyn Art, Anne Queen Consort, Wednesday Facts |
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Claire | April 26, 2023
Did you know that Anne Boleyn answered King Henry VIII’s marriage proposal by giving him a special gift? This special gift, which was probably given at New Year 1527, was a jewel. Here is my short video on it and you can find out even more details in an article – click here. Here is […]
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Claire | April 27, 2022
On this day in 1536, writs were issued summoning Parliament, and, according to Eustace Chapuys, a bishop was consulted regarding whether Henry VIII could abandon his second wife, Anne Boleyn. What was going on? And on this day in 1609, in the reign of James I, Sir Edward Michelborne, member of Parliament, soldier and adventurer, […]
Category: Anne Boleyn Fall, Events of 1536, Tudor Events |
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Joel | November 14, 2021
On this day in Tudor history, 14th November 1541, an inventory was taken of “the goods and chattels, lands and fees of” Thomas Culpeper, a groom of King Henry VIII’s privy chamber and a man who had been having secret meetings with Catherine Howard, Henry VIII’s fifth wife. An inventory had also been taken of […]
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Claire | May 28, 2021
I always find it strange at this time of year to switch from writing about Anne Boleyn’s final days in May 1536 to the lead-up to her coronation in May 1533. How different things were just three years apart. On this day in Tudor history, 28th May 1533, over four months after Henry VIII had […]
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Claire | March 7, 2019
In 1533, King Henry VIII married his sweetheart Anne Boleyn, the woman he’d been pursuing for at least six years, and then had his marriage to his wife of nearly 24 years annulled – yes, he did it that way round! Some fiction would lead us to believe that this was all Anne Boleyn’s fault. […]
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Claire | November 14, 2018
This day in history, 14th November 1532, the Feast of St Erkenwald, might just have been Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn’s wedding day! Chronicler Edward Hall can usually be trusted and according to him “The king, after his return [from Calais] married privily the lady Anne Boleyn on Saint Erkenwald’s day, which marriage was kept […]
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Claire | August 16, 2018
I’ve just come back from a two week holiday travelling through Spain and France to the UK, and while I was in the UK I was lucky enough to attend David Starkey’s talk “Henry VIII: The First Brexiteer” at the Festival Theatre at Hever Castle. It was a wonderful talk, both entertaining and educational, and […]
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