Under These Restless Skies

 On April 26th, 1536, Anne Boleyn asked her chaplain, Matthew Parker, to meet with her. She had a special request to ask of him, somethi...

    April 30, 1536 is the traditional date assigned to a story Elizabeth was told by Alexander Ales later in life about her mother hold...

April 27 GATHER ye rosebuds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying: And this same flower that smiles to-day To-morrow will be dying....

By spring of 1536, Henry VIII's passion for Anne Boleyn had soured into hatred . The son he had expected had turned out to be another ...