Word: boleyn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Queen. In England a woman once bore a daughter and was later beheaded by the child's father. The woman: prim-mouthed Anne Boleyn. The husband: vain, red-bearded, argumentative Henry VIII. The daughter: Queen Elizabeth...
...Anne Boleyn, young, bold, bright-faced, ambitious. Her sister had been a mistress of Henry's. No mistress would she be. Heavy-breathing Henry wrote long love letters to her with hearts drawn on them. She bore Elizabeth. He said she was adulterous, chopped off her head...
York House. On the site of "a hospital for 14 maidens that were leprous," dedicated to St. James the Less, Henry VIII built a palace, which he inhabited with Anne Boleyn until he tired of both. With the burning of the great Palace of Whitehall, the sovereigns of England from William III to George IV maintained there the Court of St. James's, still a synonym for the Court of Britain. There Charles I slept out the night before his execution; there the ill-starred Marie de Medici, Queen of Henry IV of France, found a refuge; there George...
Some of her works were written in collaboration with Mite Kremnitz, one of her maids of honor, sometimes under the pseudonyms of Dito et Idem: Aus zwei Welten (1884), Anna Boleyn (1886), Edleen Vaughan (1894), Sweet Hours...