Anne Boleyn's Early Life

Not Just the Tudors

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🗓️ 28 March 2022

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March 2022 marks the 500th anniversary of Anne Boleyn's first recorded appearance at the English court. To celebrate, Hever Castle - Anne's childhood home - has staged an exhibition charting her early life, and exploring the factors that moulded her character.

In this edition of Not Just the Tudors, Professor Suzannah Lipscomb goes to Hever Castle to talk to Dr. Owen Emmerson and Kate McCaffrey about the exhibition and their new book, Becoming Anne: Connections, Culture, Court. The podcast also features a rendition of "Joyssance vous donneray" by Claudin de Sermisy, sung by Jay Britton.

Watch Professor Suzannah Lipscomb exploring Hever Castle in History Hit's new documentary Becoming Anne Boleyn, here >

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0:00.0	5 hundred years ago, on Shrove Tuesday, the 4th of March, 1522, Ann Belin made her first recorded
0:24.0	debut at the English Court. She returned from France sometime in late 1521, having been
0:31.8	at the Court of France since 1515 and before that at the Court of Margaret of Austria
0:37.4	in Michelin in the low countries. At these courts, she would have become familiar with Renaissance
0:43.2	masks and courtly entertainment. When she returned to England, she joined the Household
0:48.6	of the Queen, Catherine of Arrigan, and as one of her ladies, took part in one of these
0:54.0	familiar masks or pageants, called the Chateau vert or the Green Castle. Here's how the
1:00.9	chronicler Edward Hall describes it. On Shrove Tuesday at night, the Cardinal, the King,
1:07.5	the Ambassadors, made another supper, and after supper they came into a great chamber,
1:11.8	hanged with arise. And at the nether end of the same chamber was a castle, in which was a principal
1:17.1	tower, and two less towers stood on every side, warded and embattled. And on every tower was a banner,
1:24.0	and this castle was kept with the ladies of strange names, the first beauty, the second honour,
1:29.6	the third Perseverance, the fourth Kindness, the fifth Constance, the sixth Bounty, the seventh
1:36.4	Mercy, and the eighth Pity. These eight ladies had Milan gowns of white satin, every lady had her
1:42.4	name embroidered with gold, on their headcaws and Milan bonnets of gold with jaws.
1:48.5	Underneath the base fortress of the castle were eight other ladies, whose names were danger,
1:52.9	disdain, jealousy, unkindness, scorn, malbush, strangeness. Then entered eight lords in cloth of
1:59.9	gold caps and all, and great mantles of blue satin, and these lords were named Amorous, Nobunus,
2:06.0	youth attendants, loyalty, pleasure, gentleness and liberty, the King was chief of this company.
2:13.3	Then the lords ran to the castle, and the ladies defended the castle with rosewater and
2:18.8	comforts, and the lords threw in dates and oranges, and other fruits made for pleasure, but at last the
2:24.3	place was one. Then the lords took the ladies of honour as prisoners by the hands and brought them
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