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Anne Boleyn & Katherine of Aragon: Rival Queens?

Not Just the Tudors

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A new exhibition at Hever Castle examines one curious moment of confluence, right in the midst of the crucial year of 1527. It's a moment that suggests that Catherine and Anne had more in common than we normally imagine. We started by looking at two books of ours, one owned by Hever Castle that belonged to Anne and one borrowed from the Morgan Library in New York that belonged to Catherine. So tell me about books of ours generally, what were they for? And this is a book of ours and Anne would have owned several of them and used them as well.

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