BBC2’s Tudor Court Season of programmes starts tonight at 9pm with a documentary on the fall of Anne Boleyn called ‘The Last Days of Anne Boleyn‘.
Other documentaries to be screened over the next couple of weeks are:
- Henry VIII’s Enforcer: The Rise And Fall Of Thomas Cromwell – 24 May 9pm
- Henry VII: Winter King – 30 May 9pm
- Time Traveller’s Guide to Elizabethan England – 31 May 9pm
- The Most Dangerous Man In Tudor England (about William Tyndale and the reformation) – 6 June 9pm
Anne Boleyn was the first Queen in Britain to be executed and tonight’s programme explores the reasons why she had to die. Due to the fact that none of the evidence conclusively proves any of the theories this is a topic that continues to seriously divide opinion amongst historians. Continue reading