Claire | May 19, 2015
I’m not sure whether Anne Boleyn got any sleep on the night of the 18th/19th May. She was certainly up at dawn, celebrating the Mass and receiving the sacrament from her almoner John Skip. She then ate breakfast and waited for Sir William Kingston, Constable of the Tower of London, to come and collect her. […]
Category: Anne Boleyn Execution, Anne Boleyn Fall, Events of 1536 |
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Tags: 19 May 1536, Anne Boleyn's execution, Anne Boleyn's execution speech, Lancelot de Carles
Claire | March 30, 2011
I reviewed historian G W Bernard’s “Anne Boleyn: Fatal Attractions” when it first came out last year – click here to read my review – so I was interested to read two new reviews of it, one by my friend Gareth Russell over at his blog “Confessions of a Ci-Devant” and another by Susan Walters […]
Category: Anne Boleyn Fall, Books, News, Representations of Anne Boleyn |
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Tags: adultery, Anne Boleyn, Anne Boleyn: Fatal Attractions, book reviews, G W Bernard, Lancelot de Carles
Claire | April 30, 2010
On this day in history, the 30th April 1536, Mark Smeaton was taken to Thomas Cromwell’s house in Stepney and interrogated. Within 24 hours he had confessed to making love to the Queen, Anne Boleyn, three times. It is likely that the note that Henry VIII received at the May Day joust, the next day, […]
Category: Anne Boleyn Fall, Anne Boleyn Myths, Events of 1536, Myths and Legends, Tudor Characters, Tudor Events |
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Tags: Anne Boleyn, Lancelot de Carles, Mark Smeaton, Smeton, the Countess of Worcester, The Fall of Anne Boleyn, The Spanish Chronicle, Thomas Cromwell
Claire | February 23, 2010
If you’re like me, you are eagerly awaiting the publication of G W Bernard’s “Anne Boleyn: Fatal Attractions” which comes out in April (May in the USA). Why? Because this is one historian who believes that Anne could actually have been guilty of adultery and worse, incest. Most historians these days are sympathetic to Anne’s […]
Category: Anne Boleyn Execution, Anne Boleyn Fall, Anne Boleyn General, Anne Boleyn Myths, Books, George Boleyn, Marriage, Myths and Legends, News, Six Wives, The Boleyns, Tudor Characters, Tudor Politics |
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Tags: adultery, Alison Weir, Anne Boleyn, Eric Ives, G W Bernard, George Boleyn, incest, infidelity, Lancelot de Carles, Sir Henry Norris