The Forgotten Life of Elizabeth Howard | Mother of Anne Boleyn | History for Sleep

She gave the world Anne Boleyn, and she lived to bury her. Elizabeth Howard was the mother at the very heart of the most famous family in Tudor England. She watched her children rise to the heights of the realm, and she watched the realm consume them. And yet her name has almost entirely faded from history. This quiet evening traces the largely undocumented life of a Tudor noblewoman who bore and raised the most written-about family in English history, while leaving almost no record of her own. From the green hills of Kent and the moated walls of Hever Castle to the glittering and dangerous Tudor court, we follow a woman erased not by scandal, but by the ordinary silence placed around the lives of women in her century. Settle in for a calm, slow walk into the Tudor past.