‘SIR,’ said Dr. Johnson, ‘the biographical side of literature is what I love the best.’ Heroes and hero worship play a large role in our reading and demand the consideration of the biographer. Robert ...
As the second wife of King Henry VIII, she was the queen who was long pursued - and then brutally discarded. But was Anne Boleyn - the mother of Queen Elizabeth I - really guilty of adultery with ...
As the second wife of King Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn was one of the most powerful women in the world in the 16th century. In fact, Henry’s desire to annul his first marriage to Katherine of Aragon so he ...
In this bold retelling of a scandalous moment in British history, we get a new perspective on the final months of Anne Boleyn’s life. One of the challenges in telling a story about a historical ...
There is a piece of jewellery in the Victoria and Albert Museum which was given by Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn at the height of their love affair, before things went sour. It is a gold whistle, shaped ...
Anne Boleyn, the second of Henry VIII’s six wives, is one of the most famous women in history. Her life and death at the Tower of London in 1536 have been pored over by historians for hundreds of ...
On June 1, 1533, Anne Boleyn became queen of England. In 1813 Capt. James Lawrence, commander of the U.S. frigate Chesapeake and mortally wounded in a losing battle with the British frigate Shannon, ...
A portrait of the "mastermind" behind the fall of Anne Boleyn is set to be unveiled at the former queen’s childhood home. Thomas Cromwell, the son of a blacksmith, worked his way up to become King ...
LONDON (Reuters) - Black British actor Jodie Turner-Smith is to play Anne Boleyn, wife of English King Henry VIII whom he had beheaded, in a three-part psychological thriller commissioned by TV ...
Much of what is “known” about Anne Boleyn is wrong. She didn’t have six fingers or a third nipple, according to author Susan Bordo, nor did she poison her husband’s first wife or cuckold him with 100 ...
Was 16th-Century aristocrat Jane Boleyn a treacherous, "sex-mad" spy – or was she a convenient scapegoat? A new historical ...
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