Claire | May 3, 2011

These are dark times and it feels like there is a dark cloud hanging permanently over London at the moment. The Queen, Mark Smeaton, Henry Norris and Lord Rochford are all still in the Tower and there are rumours that there will be further arrests. Like many at court, Archbishop Thomas Cranmer is shocked at […]

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Claire | May 2, 2011

Today is a sad day at The Anne Boleyn Files. Our roving reporter, Sir Tim Ridgway, has heard four pieces of bad news at court today:- Henry Norris, Groom of the Stool and Chief Gentleman of the Privy Chamber, has been taken to the Tower of London. Mark Smeaton, Court Musician, has been racked and […]

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Tags: 1536, Anne Boleyn's arrest, arrest, George Boleyn, Lord Rochford, Mark Smeaton, Sir Henry Norris, The Fall of Anne Boleyn

Claire | May 2, 2010

At dawn on the 2nd May 1536 Henry Norris, Henry VIII’s Groom of the Stool and great friend, was taken to the Tower of London. Mark Smeaton had also been taken there and Chapuys wrote to Charles V on the 2nd May telling him that:- “The Concubine’s brother, named Rochefort, has also been lodged in […]

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Tags: Anne Boleyn's arrest, George Boleyn, Lord Rochford, Sir William Kingston, The Fall of Anne Boleyn, the Tower of London