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...Anne Boleyn's Psalter-the one she carried to the scaffold- was stolen from Hever Castle-in Edenbridge, England, by burglars with a sharp sense of history. Other purloined items: Husband Henry VIII's signet ring, Queen Elizabeth's prayer book...
...official barge swept up to the landing stage of the Tower of London. Out stepped 20-year-old Elizabeth, Queen Mary's red-haired half-sister, who had just been arrested on suspicion of treason. At sight of the terrible Tower, where her luckless mother, Queen Anne Boleyn, had lost her head, the Lady Elizabeth's legs sank under her, and she fell weeping on the wet stones. Then she pulled herself together and walked into the prison with her head held high...
...them friends of mine, boys that I played with as a boy, men that might have been leaders now. Behind the great Government offices, the Home Office, the Colonial Office, the Treasury, is the heart of our great capital city; it is also historic ground. Henry VIII married Anne Boleyn near here. Elizabeth saw Shakespeare's plays and the masks of Ben Jonson here. Charles I was executed a few yards from where I'm sitting. It's historic ground, and I think today it's probably more deeply sunk in our world's history...
...TIME, April 15, is the sentence "Concurrently, with the opening of Easter Law Sittings, began the greatest flood of British divorces since Henry VIII started a church of his own so he could divorce Catherine of Aragon to marry Anne Boleyn...
...them were painted and powdered and in a few cases were wearing high-heeled shoes.";Concurrently, with the opening of Easter Law Sittings, began the greatest flood of British divorces since Henry VIII started a church of his own so he could divorce Catherine of Aragon to marry Anne Boleyn. The rush was accounted for by a combination of wartime psychology and two-year-old liberalization of Britain's divorce law (admitting desertion as grounds for divorce). On the docket last week were no less than 1,600 petitions...