Oct 17, 2021 · In honour of Anne, the Castle Objects of the Month are her Books of Hours. On display at Hever Castle we have two of Anne’s prayer books, one of which was printed in …

May 20, 2021 · Following Anne’s beheading, her devotional Book of Hours, which included several inscriptions in her own hand, disappeared for centuries. As Craig Simpson reports for …

Three of Anne Boleyn’s Books of Hours still survive today. The oldest of the three is on display at Hever Castle and was made in Bruges in c. 1450. It bears the poignant inscription: “Le tiemps …

This Book of Hours, which was made in Bruges in around 1450, bears the inscription ” Le temps viendra”, “the time will come”, and Anne’s signature, “Je anne Boleyn”, beneath a miniature of …

May 31, 2024 · Books of Hours are prayer books. They were used to pray the canonical hours during the day and would also contain a calendar of important feast days, extracts from the …

May 19, 2021 · Research conducted into the Book of Hours prayerbooks on display in Anne Boleyn’s childhood home has revealed never seen before names and words hidden in the …

Aug 1, 2023 · When King Henry VIII's wife Anne Boleyn was executed in 1536, her Book of Hours went missing for centuries. A recent discovery reveals a string of women who secured the …

May 28, 2021 · Now, 485 years after her demise, new evidence has been uncovered from a small, printed Book of Hours once owned by Anne, and now held at her childhood home of Hever …

Jul 20, 2023 · These are the touching words etched into the bylines of Anne Boleyn’s Book of Hours, c. 1528, recently discovered by researchers after hundreds of years. Used by lay …

May 19, 2021 · On the anniversary of Anne Boleyn’s execution (19 May), Hever Castle announces research conducted into an Anne Boleyn prayer book on display in her childhood …