Claire | October 3, 2019
In this latest instalment of my “Questions about Anne Boleyn” series, I look at Philippa Gregory’s best-selling novel, “The Other Boleyn Girl”, which was also turned into a movie and adapted for television. “The Other Boleyn Girl” has brought Anne Boleyn and Mary Boleyn’s stories to life for many people, and provoked an interest in […]
Category: Anne Boleyn Myths, Boleyn Myth, Books, George Boleyn, Jane Boleyn, Mary Boleyn, Myths and Legends, Representations of Anne Boleyn, The Boleyns, Thomas Boleyn |
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Tags: Anne Boleyn fiction, Philippa Gregory, The Other Boleyn Girl, The Other Boleyn Girl accuracy
Claire | July 5, 2013
The airing of the BBC adaptation of Philippa Gregory’s The White Queen has sparked off many discussions regarding the Woodville women and their use of witchcraft. There has been a lot of confusion about it, particularly as Gregory said in one interview that Elizabeth Woodville’s mother, Jacquetta Woodville, was tried and found guilty of witchcraft, […]
Category: Books, Tudor Characters |
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Tags: Edward IV, Elizabeth Woodville, Jacquetta Woodville, Philippa Gregory, The White Queen, the Woodvilles, Wars of the Roses
Claire | June 3, 2013
As you probably know, British TV channel BBC2 has been rather Tudor themed recently, airing some wonderful documentaries about Anne Boleyn, Thomas Cromwell and Henry VII, but what you may not know is that Saturday night (1st June) was a major Tudor ‘fest’. It started with A Tudor Feast at Christmas, then we had Henry […]
Category: News, Representations of Anne Boleyn |
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Tags: Philippa Gregory, The Other Boleyn Girl, TOBG
Claire | May 24, 2013
I thought I’d write a review (well, more of a rundown) of the BBC2 programme The Last Days of Anne Boleyn for those of you who missed it or are unable to see it. I sat scribbling notes as fast as I could and I hope this makes sense! The programme flitted between a narrator […]
Category: Anne Boleyn Execution, Anne Boleyn Fall, Events of 1536 |
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Tags: Alison Weir, Anne Boleyn's downfall, Anne Boleyn's execution, David Starkey, fall, fall of, G W Bernard, Greg Walker, Hilary Mantel, John Skip, last days of Anne Boleyn, Philippa Gregory, Suzannah Lipscomb, The Last Days of Anne Boleyn, Thomas Cromwell
Claire | April 5, 2011
On this day in history, 5th April 1531, Richard Roose (or Rouse), Bishop John Fisher’s cook, was boiled to death after confessing to poisoning the soup* that was served to the Bishop and his guests. Fisher, the Bishop of Rochester, survived but some of his guests, who’d eaten more of the soup, died. People were […]
Category: Anne Boleyn Myths, The Boleyns, The Tudors, Tudor Characters |
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Tags: Anne Boleyn, Bishop Fisher, Bishop John Fisher, Philippa Gregory, poison, Richard Roose, Richard Rouse, The Other Boleyn Girl, Thomas Boleyn
Claire | September 22, 2010
My inspiration for this article comes from a discussion we’ve been having on The Anne Boleyn Files Facebook page, regarding the inaccuracies of the movie and novel “The Other Boleyn Girl”, and from the many emails I receive asking me my thoughts on Philippa Gregory’s portrayal of Anne Boleyn. What concerns me about the emails […]
Category: Anne Boleyn General, Anne Boleyn Myths, Books, George Boleyn, Jane Boleyn, Mary Boleyn, Myths and Legends, Representations of Anne Boleyn |
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Tags: Philippa Gregory, The Other Boleyn Girl
Claire | August 25, 2010
sexualize, sexualise vb 1. to make or become sexual or sexually aware 2. to give or acquire sexual associations sexualization , sexualisation n1 This post has been inspired by my good friends at the History Police Facebook Group2 (thanks, Lauren!) and a discussion thread on that page regarding the sexualization of historical characters, characters such […]
Category: Anne Boleyn Myths, appearance, Representations of Anne Boleyn |
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Tags: Anne Boleyn, Philippa Gregory, sexuality, The Other Boleyn Girl
Claire | August 5, 2009
Just to let you know that Philippa Gregory’s new novel “The White Queen”, due out on 18th August, is The Anne Boleyn Files “Book of the Month”. Click here to read my review of this book which tells the story of Elizabeth Woodville and her marriage to Edward IV. The publisher of “The White Queen”, […]
Category: Books, News |
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Tags: Elizabeth Woodville, Philippa Gregory, Plantagenets, White Queen