... women slept with their necks on little wooden blocks to avoid disturbing their highly-elaborate coiffures (a legacy of Anne Boleyn and all that?) but there is no need to go to these uncomfortable extremes now. The new head-softener is borrowed from the ...

... their| daughter Princess Mary was sent there. Because she would not acknowledge Ann Boleyn as her father’s wife, she was given the worst room ! in the house, and Ann Boleyn gave orders to Mrs Shelton, in charge of the household, to give her “a box on the ...