I am not going to comment or explain. I am just going to let Anne’s words speak for her. Rest in peace, innocent victim. Good…
Writer of Grants and Historical Fiction
Tag: Anne Boleyn
I am thrilled to host author Adrienne Dillard on the very first stop of the blog tour for her just-out The Raven’s Widow: A Novel…
On April 1, Eustace Chapuys wrote a long, newsy letter to Charles V reporting what was going on at the English court. The most interesting…
Sir Thomas Wyatt was one of the bright poetic lights at the court of Henry VIII, often credited along with Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey…
This was a huge step. Anne was granted a hereditary peerage in her own right – the first time this had ever been done in…
This day was the ultimate triumph for Anne Boleyn: after seven years of struggle and uncertainty, she became the anointed Queen of England, six months…
So just about everything we know about the fall of Anne Boleyn comes from people who didn’t actually KNOW but were just repeating stories. But…
On April 30, 1536, Henry VIII wrote to Stephen Gardiner, who was then serving as England’s ambassador to Francis I. The letter was a general…
The First Act of Succession (at the time referred to only as the “Act of Succession”) was a key step in Henry’s repudiation of Catherine…
January 29, 1536 was the day that everything changed for Anne Boleyn – it was the day she miscarried of the son that would have kept…