Sylvia Barbara Soberton's latest book challenges the perception of Anne Boleyn's sister as "promiscuous, intellectually incurious and unambitious" ...

Henry VIII no doubt had many lovers but one stands out above the rest. Few better symbolise the plight of medieval women, regardless of social standing than Mary Boleyn, the sister of Anne, who had a ...

Justin Chadwick’s 2008 historical romance film, The Other Boleyn Girl, revolves around the tragic story of the Boleyn sisters, Anne and Mary, who became entangled in the political and religious ...

“When you sleep with the king, it ceases to be a private matter.” And so it comes to pass that young Mary Boleyn (Scarlett Johansson) must stand before her father, Sir Thomas (Mark Rylance), and her ...

Investigate the real story of Mary Boleyn and challenge historical assumptions about her life and legacy in Tudor times.

Every writer would like to have a juicy family history to draw upon for their work, but few are as fortunate as Co Galway-based Ann Henning Jocelyn. Her husband Robert Jocelyn, the 10th Earl of Roden, ...

Mistress of Henry VIII and his rival Fran%C3%A7ois I, Mary Boleyn has often been romanticized and misrepresented in histories and in popular novels like Philippa ...

The 400-year-old Boleyn painting was snatched in a horrific robbery in 1990. After years of detective work, the portrait is back where it belongs and the person who made it happen has written a play ...

Playing less fast and loose with history than Philippa Gregory’s novel, “The Other Boleyn Girl” is a sexy, good-looking political bodice-ripper with an almost flawless cast at the top of its game.