Claire | April 29, 2011
You may well have seen the latest news from “The Spanish Chronicle” regarding Queen Anne hiding her musician, Mark Smeaton, in her marmalade cupboard and then spending the night with him, but here at The Anne Boleyn Files we would just like to point out that there is absolutely no evidence to back up this […]
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Tags: 1536, Anne Boleyn's ladies, Mark Smeaton, Mark Smeton, Mrs Stoner, Sir William Kingston, The Fall of Anne Boleyn, The Spanish Chronicle, Thomas Cromwell
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
