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Anne Boleyn was carried in a litter draped with white cloth of gold, her hair was worn loose like a bride's. [15] The procession travelled through major streets of the city; along the way, Anne was entertained with sumptuous displays. According to a contemporary pamphlet, the Lord Mayor of London and his entourage then received the queen.
Anne Boleyn (/ ˈ b ʊ l ɪ n, b ʊ ˈ l ɪ n /; [7] [8] [9] c. 1501 or 1507 – 19 May 1536) was Queen of England from 1533 to 1536, as the second wife of King Henry VIII.The circumstances of her marriage and execution, by beheading for treason, made her a key figure in the political and religious upheaval that marked the start of the English Reformation.
The use of ray cloth on the route of the procession was traditional. The cloth used at the coronation of Anne Boleyn was described as "blue ray cloth". [149] At the coronation of Elizabeth of York on 25 November 1487, spectators rushed to cut pieces of the ray cloth with knives before her ladies had even finished passing by. [150]
Having been appointed as Boleyn's lord chamberlain, Borough maintained a high profile and rode in her barge as she was received at the Tower on her coronation day. Appearing in the procession he wore a surcoat and mantle of white cloth of tissue and ermine as he held the middle of Anne Boleyn's coronation train. [5] [7]
Anne Boleyn was King Henry VIII's wife. She had one child and was beheaded. Netflix's new series, 'Blood, Sex & Royalty,' dives into the queen's life and death.
In 1503 the hearse of Elizabeth of York, queen of Henry VII, halted at Temple Bar, on its way from the Tower to Westminster, and at the Bar the Abbots of Westminster and Bermondsey blessed the corpse, and the Earl of Derby and a large company of nobles joined the funeral procession. Anne Boleyn passed through the Bar on 31 May 1534, the day ...
In early 1533, Henry married Anne Boleyn, ... She was accompanied by her half-sister Elizabeth and a procession of over 800 nobles and gentlemen. [79] Reign
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