Hello and welcome to the Queens of England podcast.

Chat, Amber Lynn with Claire Ridgeway.

So to conclude my series on Amberlin, which finished with my magnum opus last week,

I wanted to get someone on the podcast who really got Amberlin,

and luckily, the first person on my list who I contacted, agreed to come on the show.

Claire Ridgeway is a writer, blogger, and all-around Tudor fanatic from my homeland of England,

but now applies her trade in sunny Spain.

In 2009, she started one of my favourite history websites on the whole worldwide web, the Amberlyn Files, a fantastic repository of her research and fascination with England's

most controversial queen. On there, you can find articles in every aspect of her life, on there,

you can find articles in every aspect of Amber Lynn's life, as well as book reviews, interviews,

and basically everything that you could ever want to find out about. Not only her,

but also other key to the figures alive during Anne's life. I often use it as a jump-off point during

my research into not only the Anne episodes, but also the ones on Catherine of Aragon, and the

upcoming ones on Jane Seymour, as she has a fantastic wealth of contemporary quotes that are all reliably

referenced. Professional historians, please take a note, as well as a useful bibliography.

You can find it all at www.theamberlin files.com. She's also written a number of books on Anne,

including The Ambelin Collection and The Fall of

of Anne Boleyn, a countdown, both of which were bestsellers. You can find links to all of this,

of course, in the show notes. As you'll soon hear, we had a fascinating discussion in a late

night recording a couple of weeks ago, and I started by asking what it was that first fascinated

her with Anne Boleyn and motivated her to start the Anne Boleyn files.

Well, it's a bit of a long story. I've always been a history nerd. History was one of my favourite subjects from, well, as far as I can remember.

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