Claire | July 5, 2019

I’ve just published my latest “Questions about Anne Boleyn” video over on the Anne Boleyn Files and Tudor Society YouTube channel. It’s a topic that I’ve handled before, here on the Anne Boleyn Files website, but I just had to talk about it again after receiving that message. In the video, I answer the question […]

Category: Anne Boleyn Myths, The Boleyns | 28 Comments »
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Claire | November 27, 2013

It has been claimed, on various occasions, that Anne Boleyn ‘frenchified’ her name by changing it from ‘Bullen’ to ‘Boleyn’, making it less common and more ‘upmarket’ – “Anne Boleyn” versus “Nan Bullen”. This is a myth, however, and is actually to do with the fact that there was no standardized spelling in England at […]

Category: Anne Boleyn General, Anne Boleyn Myths, Boleyn Myth, Myths and Legends, The Boleyns | 33 Comments »
Tags: Anne Boleyn, Boleyn spelling, Bullen, Bulleyne, George Boleyn, spelling of Boleyn, Thomas Boleyn