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1 day ago · A newly rediscovered oil sketch by Paul Delaroche will be displayed, which can be seen as a fascinating token of his working procedure during the creation of one of the most celebrated paintings in London's National Gallery, The Execution of Lady Jane Grey.
1 day ago · Anne Boleyn (/ ˈ b ʊ l ɪ n, b ʊ ˈ l ɪ n /; c. 1501 or 1507 – 19 May 1536) was Queen of England from 1533 to 1536, as the second wife of King Henry VIII. The circumstances of her marriage and execution by beheading for treason, made her a key figure in the political and religious upheaval that marked the start of the English Reformation .
1 day ago · Each woman is given a gallery of her own, “charting her reign, background, legend”. We get a sense of them as individuals, but also of how their identities were “tangled or manipulated”: the bestknown image of Anne Boleyn was painted after her death; there is no securely attributed likeness.
1 day ago · Divorced, beheaded, died; divorced, beheaded, survived. Henry VIII's six wives are often reduced to this easily memorable couplet, said Evgenia Siokos in The Daily Telegraph. In this new ...
1 day ago · Well, it dates to the 1530s and Eric Ives, in his biography of Anne Boleyn, put forward the idea that it was made to celebrate the marriage of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, noting how it featured Anne’s arms, the ciphers RA and HR, the arms of Henry and Anne impaled, a woman’s profile, a bull’s head and lovers’ knots.
2 days ago · Elizabeth I (7 September 1533 – 24 March 1603) [a] was Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death in 1603. She was the last monarch of the House of Tudor . Elizabeth was the only surviving child of Henry VIII and his second wife, Anne Boleyn. When Elizabeth was two years old, her parents' marriage was annulled, her ...
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5 days ago · Anne Boleyn's lady-in-waiting Jane Parker was instrumental in the execution of not one, but two queens. And maid-of-honour Anne Basset kept her place through the last four consorts, negotiating the conflicting loyalties of her birth family, her mistress the Queen, and even the desires of the King himself.
