BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTATIONS

Year	Date	Event
1485:	December 16	Birth of Katherine of Aragon.
1489:	March 27	Betrothal of Katherine of Aragon and Prince Arthur, Henry's elder brother.
1491:	June 28	Birth of Prince Henry, later Henry VIII.
1499:	May 19	Marriage by proxy of Katherine of Aragon and Prince Arthur.
1501:	May 19	Second marriage by proxy of Katherine of Aragon and Prince Arthur.
1501:	September 27	Katherine arrives in England.
1501:	November 14	Marriage of Katherine of Aragon and Prince Arthur.
1502:	April 2	Death of Prince Arthur.
1503:	June 25	Katherine betrothed to Prince Henry.
1504:	February 18	Henry created Prince of Wales.
1505:	June 27	Prince Henry secretly repudiates his betrothal.
1507:	Circa	Birth of Anne Boleyn?
1507:	Circa	Birth of Jane Seymour?
1509:	April 22	Death of Henry VII, accession of Henry VIII.
1509:	June 11	Marriage of Katherine of Aragon and Henry VIII.
1509:	June 24	Coronation of Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon.
1510-1518:	Circa	Katherine gives birth to at least 6 children, of which only one survives past childbirth, the Princess Mary, later Mary I.
1512:	Circa	Birth of Catherine Parr.
1513:	August 16	Battle of the Spurs.
1513:	September 9	Battle of Flodden.
1515:	September 22	Birth of Anne of Cleves.
1516:	February 18	Birth of Princess Mary, later Mary I.
1519:	June	Birth of Henry's bastard son, Henry FitzRoy.
1520:	June	The Field of the Cloth of Gold, summit meeting between France and England.
1525:	Circa	Birth of Kathryn Howard.
1526:	February	First indications that Henry is courting Anne Boleyn.
1527:	May 17	Proceedings begin to annul marriage to Katherine of Aragon.
1530:	November	Death of Cardinal Wolsey.
1532:	September 1	Anne Boleyn created Marquess of Pembroke.
1533:	January 25?	Secret marriage of Anne Boleyn and Henry VIII.
1533:	May 23	Declaration that marriage to Katherine of Aragon is invalid.
1533:	June 1	Coronation of Anne Boleyn.
1533:	September 7	Birth of Princess Elizabeth, later Elizabeth I.
1534:	July	Birth of dead child to Anne Boleyn.
1535:	June	Birth of stillborn child to Anne Boleyn.
1535:	July 6	Execution of Sir Thomas More.
1535:	November	First mentions of courtship of Jane Seymour.
1536:	January 7	Death of Katherine of Aragon.
1536:	January 29	Birth of stillborn son to Anne Boleyn.
1536:	May 2	Anne Boleyn arrested on charges of adultery, incest and treason.
1536:	May 15	Trial of Anne Boleyn.
1536:	May 19	Execution of Anne Boleyn.
1536:	May 20	Betrothal to Jane Seymour.
1536:	May 30	Marriage of Jane Seymour and Henry VIII.
1537:	October 12	Birth of Prince Edward, later Edward VI.
1537:	October 24	Death of Jane Seymour due to complications of childbirth.
1539:	September 4	Betrothal of Anne of Cleves and Henry VIII.
1540:	January 6	Marriage of Anne of Cleves and Henry VIII.
1540:	April	First mentions of courtship of Kathryn Howard.
1540:	July 9	Annulment of marriage to Anne of Cleves.
1540:	July 28	Execution of Thomas Cromwell, marriage of Kathryn Howard and Henry VIII.
1542:	February 13	Execution of Kathryn Howard for infidelity.
1543:	July 12	Marriage of Catherine Parr and Henry VIII.
1547:	January 28	Death of Henry VIII, accession of Edward VI.
1547:	Circa	Marriage of Catherine Parr to Thomas Seymour, her fourth husband.
1548:	August 30	Birth of daughter to Catherine Parr, died soon after.
1548:	September 7	Death of Catherine Parr.
1553:	July 6	Death of Edward VI.
1553:	July 10	Lady Jane Grey proclaimed Queen, barring Mary and Elizabeth from the throne.
1553:	July 19	Queen Jane disposed, accession of Mary I.
1557:	July 16	Death of Anne of Cleves.
1558:	November 17	Death of Mary I, accession of Elizabeth I.

Anne of the Thousand Days, Maxwell Anderson. (Drama)
Brief Gaudy Hour, Margaret Campbell Barnes. (Fiction)
A Man for All Seasons, Robert Bolt. (Drama)
Anne Boleyn, Marie Louise Bruce.
Anne Boleyn, Hester W. Chapman.
Anne Boleyn: A New Life of England's Tragic Queen, Joanna Denny.
Mistress Anne, Carolly Erickson.
The Wives of Henry VIII, Antonia Fraser.
Anne Boleyn: A Chapter of English History 1527-1536, Paul Friedmann. (two volumes)
Threads, Nell Gavin. (Fiction)
The Autobiography of Henry VIII, Margaret George. (Fiction)
Queen Anne Boleyn, Francis Hackett. (Fiction)
Young Bess, Margaret Irwin. (Fiction, 1st in series)
Elizabeth, Captive Princess, Margaret Irwin. (Fiction, 2nd in series)
Elizabeth and the Prince of Spain, Margaret Irwin. (Fiction, 3rd in series)
Anne Boleyn, Eric Ives.
The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn, Eric Ives.
Divorced, Beheaded, Survived, Karen Lindsey.
Anne Boleyn, Norah Lofts.
The Concubine, Norah Lofts. (Fiction)
I, Elizabeth, Rosalind Miles. (Fiction)
The Lady in the Tower, Jean Plaidy. (Fiction)
Henry VIII, William Shakespeare. (Drama)
Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII, David Starkey.
Anne Boleyn, Vercors. (Fiction)
The Rise and Fall of Anne Boleyn, Retha M. Warnicke.
The Children of England, Alison Weir.
The Six Wives of Henry VIII, Alison Weir.

The Private Life of Henry VIII, 1933, Charles Laughton, Merle Oberon (as Anne Boleyn).

The Sword and the Rose, 1953, Glynis Johns, Richard Todd.

Young Bess, 1953, Jean Simmons, Deborah Kerr.

A Man for All Seasons, 1966, Paul Scofield, Robert Shaw, Vanessa Redgrave (as Anne Boleyn).

Anne of the Thousand Days, 1969, Richard Burton, Genevieve Bujold (as Anne Boleyn).

The Six Wives of Henry VIII, 1969, Keith Mitchell, Dorothy Tutin (as Anne Boleyn). (T.V. Serial)

Elizabeth R, 1971, Glenda Jackson. (T.V. Serial)

Carry On Henry, 1971, Sid James and the Carry On Gang.

Henry VIII and His Six Wives, 1973, Keith Mitchell, Charlotte Rampling (as Anne Boleyn).

Elizabeth, 1998, Cate Blanchett, Joseph Fiennes.

Anne Boleyn, Anonymous, National Portrait Gallery, London.
Anne Boleyn, attributed to John Hoskins, col. of HG The Duke of Buccleuch and Queensbury, K.T.
Unknown Lady, Hans Holbein the younger, British Museum.
The Queen of Spades, from a deck of cards called "Tudor Rose", Piatnik Playing Cards, Austria.
Unknown Lady, Hans Holbein the younger, col. of HRH Queen Elizabeth II.
Anne Boleyn, Anonymous, Private Collection.
Henry VIII, Act I, Scene IV, Isaac Taylor, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.
Henry VIII, Act I, Scene IV, Sir John Gilbert, Globe Illustrated Shakespeare, Crown Pub.
Anne Boleyn as St. Barbara, Anonymous, British Museum.
Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn Shooting in Windsor Forest, William Powell Firth.
Bay Window in the Gallery, Hever Castle, Kent, Joseph Nash, The London Library.
Anne Boleyn in the Tower, Edouard Cibot, Heim Gallery, London.
Henry VIII, Hans Holbein the younger, Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, Lugano.
Henry VIII, Hans Holbein the younger, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Rome.
Elizabeth I as Princess, attributed to William Stretes, col. of HRH Queen Elizabeth II.
Elizabeth I, the Rainbow Portrait, attributed to Isaac Oliver, British Museum.
Katherine of Aragon, Anonymous, National Portrait Gallery, London.
Mary I, as Princess, Master John, National Portrait Gallery, London.
Cardinal Wolsey, Anonymous, National Portrait Gallery, London.
Sir Thomas More, Hans Holbein the younger, col. of HRH Queen Elizabeth II.
Francis I, Jean Clouet, Musee de Louvre, Paris.
Thomas Cromwell, Anonymous, after Holbein, National Portrait Gallery, London.
Thomas Cranmer, Gerlach Flicke, National Portrait Gallery, London.
Jane Seymour, Hans Holbein the younger, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.

Other Illustrations

Anne Boleyn, Anonymous, Hever Castle, Royal Tunbridge Wells.
Royal Coat of Arms of Anne Boleyn, window at Hever Castle, Royal Tunbridge Wells.
Tudor Rose from a deck of cards called "Tudor Rose", Piatnik Playing Cards, Austria.

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