#PortraitTuesday – Anne Boleyn in the Tower by Édouard Cibot
This week's #PortraitTuesday treat is a well-known 19th century Anne Boleyn portrait. The Anne Boleyn in the Tower…
Anne Boleyn in the Tower
18 May 1536 – This lady has much joy and pleasure in death
Queen Anne Boleyn’s execution had been scheduled for 18th May 1536, so carpenters worked through the night of…
18 May 1536 – Anne Boleyn prepares for death
On the night of 17th/18th May 1536, while the carpenters built her scaffold within the grounds of the…
4 May 1536 – Anne Boleyn complains
On or around 4th May 1536, Sir William Kingston, Constable of the Tower of London, wrote to Thomas…