‘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, 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 ...
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 ...
Bordo (Unbearable Weight) writes that the goal of this engaging cultural biography was to “find the ‘real’ Anne Boleyn and rescue her from the pile of mythology that had built up around her” even ...
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 ...
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 ...
"Queen & Slim" star Jodie Turner-Smith will star in the Paramount+ with Showtime spy thriller series "The Agency." 'Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light' with Mark Rylance to begin production "Wolf ...
For centuries, Jane Boleyn, Lady Rochford, has been relegated to the role of history’s villain—the spiteful wife who ...
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 ...
“Queen & Slim” star Jodie Turner-Smith will star as the Tudor-era queen, Anne Boleyn, in a three-part psychological drama for ViacomCBS-backed U.K. broadcaster Channel 5. Boleyn was the Queen of ...
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 ...