Today is the anniversary of the execution of Queen Anne Boleyn on Tower Green in 1536. Few figures in English history have generated so much enthusiasm or opprobrium, or been the centre of so much debate. Controversial in life she still has the ability to be controversial 485 years after the Calais swordsman decapitated her.
Despite that furious debate new facts do still emerge and the inews website has marked her anniversary with a report about research into two Books of Hours that belonged to the Queen and contain notes in her hand. She is believed to have carried them to the scaffold on her last day. They are now at Hever Castle.
The article can be seen at Hidden inscriptions discovered in Anne Boleyn's execution prayer books
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