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Showing posts with label Anne Boleyn. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Anne Boleyn. Show all posts
Thursday, May 24, 2018

How many fingers did Anne Boleyn have?

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History Extra There is no concrete evidence that Anne Boleyn had six fingers. George Wyatt, grandson of court poet and ambassador Sir ...
Tuesday, April 25, 2017

5 things you (probably) didn’t know about the Tudors

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History Extra 1) The Tudors should never have got anywhere near the throne When Henry Tudor defeated Richard III at the battle of Bo...
Friday, March 31, 2017

5 things you (probably) didn’t know about Henry VIII

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History Extra c1540, a portrait of King Henry VIII. An engraving by T A Dean from a painting by Hans Holbein. (Photo by Hulton Archive/...
Tuesday, May 24, 2016

Why did Anne Boleyn have to die?

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History Extra The most familiar depictions of Anne Boleyn are various reproductions of this glamorous portrait, in which she wears th...
Monday, May 23, 2016

Did Anne Boleyn crave the crown?

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History Extra This portrait of Anne Boleyn is probably an Elizabethan copy of a lost original painted when Anne was queen. © Bridgema...
Monday, May 2, 2016

History Trivia - Anne Boleyn arrested

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May 2 1536 Anne Boleyn, Queen of England, was arrested and imprisoned on charges of adultery, incest, treason and witchcraft.
Saturday, April 9, 2016

Anne Boleyn, Guy Fawkes and the princes: a brief history of the Tower of London

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History Extra 'The Young Princes in the Tower', 1831. (Photo by The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images) ...
Monday, January 25, 2016

History Trivia - Henry VIII marries Anne Boleyn

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January 25 1533 Henry VIII of England secretly married his second wife Anne Boleyn.
Tuesday, September 1, 2015

History Trivia - Lady Anne Boleyn made Marchioness of Pembroke

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September 1  891 Northmen defeated near Louvaine, France. 1339 The Hundred Years' War officially began when King Edward III of E...
Monday, June 1, 2015

History Trivia - Friar John Cor records the first known batch of Scotch Whisky

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June 1 193 Roman Emperor Didius Julianus was assassinated.   1495 Friar John Cor (Lindores Abbey, Scotland) recorded the first...
Saturday, May 2, 2015

History Trivia - Anne Boleyn, Queen of England, arrested

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May 2   1519 Leonardo da Vinci died. 1536 Anne Boleyn, Queen of England, was arrested and imprisoned on charges of adultery, ince...
Thursday, April 2, 2015

Kings and Queens in profile: Anne Boleyn

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History Extra As part of our new Kings and Queens series , historian Elizabeth Norton tells you everything you need to know about Anne ...
Saturday, March 14, 2015

How many fingers did Anne Boleyn have?

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History Extra Emma McFarnon     Anne Boleyn. © Classic Image / Alamy                       There is no concrete evidence th...
Monday, September 1, 2014

History Trivia - Lady Anne Boleyn made Marchioness of Pembroke

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Sept 1  891 Northmen defeated near Louvaine, France.  1339 The Hundred Years' War officially began when King Edward III of Engla...
Sunday, June 1, 2014

History Trivia - Friar John Cor (Lindores Abbey, Scotland) records the first known batch of Scotch Whisky

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June 1  193 Roman Emperor Didius Julianus was assassinated. 987 Hugh Capet was elected King of France. 1204 King Philip August...