Bordo (Unbearable Weight) writes that the goal of this engaging cultural biography was to “find the ‘real’ Anne Boleyn and rescue her from the pile of mythology that had built up around her” even ...

Netflix’s new mini series, Blood Sex & Royalty, explores the fascinating and dramatically short life of Anne Boleyn, a woman who rose to power as the mistress-turned-wife of King Henry VIII in Tudor ...

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Whether Henry had been in love with her or simply in lust, she was indeed a woman and a Queen in her own right, in a world where it was a disadvantage to be female. Even 500 years after her death, we ...

Premieres Mondays, Aug. 29 - Sept. 12, 2022 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV + Tuesdays, Aug. 30 - Sept. 13 at 10 p.m. on KPBS 2 / On demand with PBS Video App Beloved, betrayed and beheaded, Anne Boleyn is ...

The clever casting alone had promise: the role reversal of the va-va-voomy Scarlett Johansson playing sweet country girl Mary Boleyn and the pixieish Natalie Portman playing her scheming vixen of an ...