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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

She initially made comparisons with other portraits of the two ... advisor wished to marry his daughter Mary, bulbous nose and all.) If accounts of Anne Boleyn haunting her old family home are ...

Mary Boleyn: The Mistress of Kings is out this ... And this is subjective evidence, but there's a portrait thought to be of Katherine that has a striking resemblance to Henry.

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.

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 ...