the link to part 1 of the series “A fatal love triangle: King Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, and Jane Seymour” is here The fatal love triangle of Henry VIII, Anne, and Jane Seymour was at the centre of the grisly murder of Queen Anne Boleyn. In April 1536, stormy clouds were...
What would have happened if Queen Mary I had a reason to execute her younger sister, Elizabeth?
One of my readers asked me what would of happened if Queen Mary I had a reason to execute her younger sister, Elizabeth? Could Mary send her sister to the block? Would she have named Mary Stuart as her heir? Mary and Elizabeth had a very strained relationship after Mary’s...
Anne Boleyn’s first public appearance as Queen of England
On Easter Eve, Saturday the 12th of April 1533, Anne Boleyn made her first public appearance as Queen of England. She attended mass in the Queen’s Closet at Greenwich Palace. On the 11th of April 1533, Henry VIII informed the Council that Anne must have been recognized as queen and...
Another Boleyn woman: Elizabeth Howard Boleyn
Yesterday was an anniversary of Elizabeth Boleyn’s death. Elizabeth Boleyn (née Howard), Countess of Wiltshire and the wife of Thomas Boleyn, died on the 3rd of April 1538, somewhere near Baynard’s Castle, the home of the Abbot of Reading. Elizabeth was a member of one of the highest-ranking noble families in...
A fatal love triangle: King Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, and Jane Seymour (part 1)
In the first half of 1536, King Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, and Jane Seymour were tangled in a fatal love triangle, which in the end resulted in the murder of the innocent anointed queen and the monarch’s third marriage soon after Anne's execution. Lady Jane Seymour, who was born in...