Hello, I'm Lucy Worsley, chief curator at Historic Royal Palaces.

You're listening to our podcast that explores the history and stories of our six palaces.

These talks are a collection of some of our best live events.

I really hope you enjoy listening.

In this talk, historians Lauren McKay, Susanna Lipscomb and George Bernard

explore the life of Anne Boleyn and her relationship with the Tower of London.

I'm Lauren Johnson.

I've been, it's been brilliant working places like the Tower of London,

because you get to meet

many members of the public who are fascinated by history. And what's particularly interesting

is over the years you get a bit of a sense of who the most interesting historical figures,

the most important historical events are in the collective consciousness. There are certain

people who seem to just reverberate across the centuries. And I would say that Anne Boleyn is foremost among those, as we can see from the number of you who are here tonight. And this evening, we're very fortunate to be hearing from three speakers who themselves have written about Anne Boleyn and explored this fascinating period of history

from many different perspectives. And we are going to be hearing from them in a particular order.

We are going to, first of all, have the entirety of Anne Boleyn from Lauren Mackay, who is situated

in the middle here. Then we will proceed to the downfall of Anne Boleyn from two very different perspectives,

first of all from Susanna Lipscomb and then from George Bernard.

And I'll give you a bit more information about these people as we get to them.

But no further ado, I'd like to hand over to Lauren Mackay to come up.

Her book Inside the Tudor Court, Henry VIII and his six wives, through the writings

of the Spanish ambassador Eustace Chappuis. Her work explores this period of history through

the writings of Eustis Chappuie. She's also currently researching her PhD on Thomas and George

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