Jane is of particular importance to Hampton Court for it was here she gave birth to Henry’s only surviving male heir who was to become Edward VI. Distantly related to both King Henry and Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour represents another…

Anne’s date of birth is remarkably uncertain, somewhere between 1501 and 1507. Her father, Thomas Boleyn, had been a peripatetic diplomat for both Henrys VII and VIII, was a linguist, and Anne followed in his footsteps. As a young girl…

Was she Catherine or Katherine? Confusing in any index, but in fact she was neither. In Spain she was baptised Catalina, not until after her first marriage in England did she call herself Katherine, or variations on that, but always…