He died soon after the wedding and was succeeded by Francis I, who reputedly boasted about deflowering Mary Boleyn and passing her around his courtiers. “That was possibly not true, but even if ...

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 ...

Embedded in a court rife with romantic intrigue, Anne asks herself "why becoming queen mattered so much, when the chance of true ... Anne Boleyn, Marie Antoinette, Catherine Howard, Mary Queen ...

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 ...

While the broad historic outlines of the story are accurate—Mary Boleyn did bear two children generally believed to be Henry’s, Henry did break with the church of Rome to marry Anne ...