Home at Hever

Jeremy Flint takes camera and pen behind the scenes at Anne Boleyn’s childhood home to find out what it’s like to work at one of Britain’s most historic castles

Hever Castle is a 14th-century romantic hideaway set in glorious Kent countryside, spanning over 600 years of rich history. Though it has been home to 12 different families, the magnificent castle is best known as the childhood home of Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII’s second wife and mother of Queen Elizabeth I. Anne’s great grandfather, Sir Geoffrey Boleyn, bought Hever in 1462, and decades later Anne and her siblings, Mary and George, grew up here. Hever later provided a sanctuary for the would-be queen, who retreated here for privacy during the heat and prying eyes of the love scandal that involved her and King Henry in the late 1520s. Anne also returned to Hever in 1528 when she contracted the sweating sickness that swept through the country. Her survival could be attributed to Henry sending…

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