Cromwell, Boleyn & Aragon: A New Discovery
Not Just the Tudors
History Hit
4.8 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 15 June 2023
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Experts at Hever Castle - the childhood home of Anne Boleyn - have made an extraordinary discovery. They’ve established that an ornate 1527 prayer book — kept in a Cambridge library for more than 350 years — belonged to Henry VIII’s Chief Minister Thomas Cromwell and appears in Holbein’s portrait of him. Identical books were also owned by Catherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn.
In today’s episode of Not Just the Tudors, Professor Suzannah Lipscomb goes to Hever Castle to find out more.
This episode was produced by Rob Weinberg.
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| 1:22.6 | The curators at Heaver Castle, Alison Palmer, Dr Owen Emerson and Kate McCaffrey have made a |
| 1:33.5 | startling wonderful discovery. They have found the very book of hours that was painted by hands |
| 1:41.4 | whole-bind into his portrait of Thomas Cromwell in around 1532. It is generally housed in the |
| 1:49.0 | Ren Library at Trinity College Cambridge. Thomas Cromwell was of course Henry VIII's right-hand man |
| 1:55.4 | from around 1532 to his execution in 1540. He had been a servant of Cardinal Thomas Walsy, |
| 2:02.5 | but he rose when Walsy fell. He is considered by many to be the architect of Henry's English |
| 2:07.8 | Reformation, helping Henry out of his marriage to Catherine into the marriage with Anne |
| 2:12.9 | and out of union with the Roman Catholic Church, which makes the discovery of this book |
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