Researchers recently identified the unnamed sitter in this portrait as Mary Boleyn, older sister of Anne Boleyn. Photograph by Mike Davidson, via Royal Collection ...

The identity of the sitter who modelled for the Royal Collection's mysterious 'Portrait of a Woman' was thought to be lost to history, but now, thanks to new research, it has been revealed to be none ...

It is a tale of art theft, aristocracy and adventure that reads like the pages of a crime thriller – but the story behind the return of the stolen portrait of Mary Boleyn is much stranger than ...

When this portrait was made, Mary was a much loved six year old ... so he wanted a divorce to marry Anne Boleyn. In 1533, he got his way by splitting from Rome and the Catholic Church, opening ...

The mystery sitter for a Royal Collection portrait has been identified as Mary Boleyn, King Henry VIII's mistress before her sister Anne became his wife. Portrait of a Woman has been sitting in ...

Thanks to her portrait, five centuries later Anne’s iconic ‘B ... If legend is to be believed, then the ‘other Boleyn girl’ – Mary Boleyn, Anne’s sister and former mistress to Henry VIII – was given ...

The painting of Mary Boleyn was stolen, and the earl had a stroke during the robbery that eventually led to his death. Most of the items were later recovered, but the portrait of Mary remained lost.

The 14th portrait had been sent to Hampton Court in the 19th century and then, in 1995, to the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh, where it hangs today in Mary, Queen of Scots’ bedroom.

Mary Boleyn enjoyed a royal fling with Henry VIII before her younger sister Anne moved into the limelight. Alison Plowden reveals the little-known story of a fascinating figure. The rise of the ...

Mary Boleyn was the elder sister of the monarch's second wife Anne, who was beheaded at the Tower of London ...