... certain alleviations. There are two blocks for instance, one at which you can kneel and one at which you can lie down, and Anne Boleyn was successful in her petition that she might be executed not with an axe but with a sword. The most famous escape was that ...

... ANNE BOLEYN. What was Anne Boleyn's secret? Neither beautiful nor learned she evoked a fury of tender ness in that unpromising bully Henry VIII. And when her pride and scheming brought Nemesis she died with a splendid gesture to the headsman. Courage ...

... A LOVE LETT Ell TO Anne B ''a Henry :'rpHE approach of the time which I have so long awaited JL rejoices me so much that it seems already here. However, the complete fulfilment cannot be until the two persons meet, which meet ing, for my part, is more ...

... (Heinemann 15s.), bringing without stint a fine legal brain to the vital points of some notable and notorious trials, from Anne Boleyn to Herman Goring. ...

... the old Somers nerve occurred in July, 1535, when in the presence of the whole breathless Court Master Somers referred to Anne Boleyn as a trollope ribaude and to her offspring, later known as Good Queen Bess, as a b-st-rd which was strictly correct by Canon ...

... she died two days after she I had presented Henry with the future Edward VI. At least she did not go j to the block as Anne Boleyn had done. j Sir Edward Seymour throughout j most of his life was a spoiled darling i of fortune, being created a Viscount ...

... a clear title to be called that which her man-minded pre decessor in title of Tudor times was often so falsely styled. Anne Boleyn's daughter was never even comely; she never had the best of manners, and, according to the history books, was only known ...

... Anne Boleyn's Brat Freda Bruce Lochhart At The Pictures CHARLES LAUGHTON it is who, as Captain Kidd in Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd (London Pavilion), with a magnificently dirty look and cock of his tricorn, utters the wickedly two-edged witticism: ...

... fascinating executions of Charles I., Lady Jane Grey or and preferably, since she seemed to have been rather a horrid minx Anne Boleyn. This last paragraph is my Christmas offering to fond parents on wet afternoons during the forthcoming holidays. (It is ...

... smell of gunpowder. To us, today, it means Guy Fawkes Night. But fireworks have been going on much longer than that. When Anne Boleyn married Henry VIII in 1553 the occasion was celebrated by a river procession from Greenwich to Westminster. A foyste or ...

... back to the time of Richard II., and has had a stirring history. Anne Boleyn was born at Hever, for the castle belonged to her father, Sir Thomas Boleyn, until Henry VIII. seized it after Anne's death ...

... appeals. Hampton Court? Cardinal Wolsey once threw a sumptuous, if slightly uninhibited, party there, at which Henry VIII met Ann Boleyn; and more recently the Brigade of Guards held their Coronation Ball there, eclipsing, for those who went to it, every similar ...