🎧 Anne Boleyn Special: New Discoveries
🎧 Not Just the Tudors • 42m
Secret inscriptions have been discovered in the prayer book Anne Boleyn took to her death by Kate McCaffrey. She talks to Suzannah in this special to mark the 485th anniversary of Anne Boleyn's death, on 19 May 1536. Also, Suzannah looks at a wonderful assortment of new research on Anne. She goes to Anne's childhood home of Hever Castle in Kent to meet Dr. Owen Emmerson and finds out about Anne’s family background with Dr. Lauren MacKay.
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