Infrared analysis of a 16th-century portrait of Anne Boleyn uncovered a deliberate reworking of the doomed queen’s hands. The clear depiction of five fingers on each hand is believed to counter ...

Forget the 1950s play and movie about Anne Frank’s diary, the generations of schoolchildren assigned to read the book, the myths that have arisen around the image of Anne Frank herself, the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Odds are, when you think of Anne Boleyn, the image that pops to mind if the one above: A late 16th century portrait which is ...

A portrait of Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII's ill-fated second wife, is now thought to be an attempt to rehabilitate her image after her death. Using infrared reflectography, historians and curators have ...

New research suggests that mother and daughter's likenesses were blurred to reinforce Elizabeth I's claim to the throne. A portrait of Anne Boleyn from the late 16th century (c.1500-1536) by an ...

The artist behind the works may have used Elizabeth’s likeness as a template in other royal portraits to visually emphasize her resemblance to previous monarchs and reinforce her status as the ...

Anne Boleyn is arguably one of the most well-known figures in Tudor history. She was King Henry VIII's second wife of six wives, and she was famously beheaded at the Tower of London for treason in ...

A new analysis of the Hever Rose portrait suggests that the painter deliberately modified an existing template to showcase Anne’s hands—with no extra digits—holding a delicate rose Meilan Solly | ...

On the eve of the opening of a major new exhibition, the actress who currently portrays Anne Boleyn in the West End stepped into the ill-fated Queen’s childhood home of Hever Castle, to come ...

Nearly 500 years have passed since Anne Boleyn was executed by her husband, England’s King Henry VIII, yet somehow we’re still finding new ways to be fascinated by the infamous Tudor queen. Despite ...