The Boleyns of Hever Castle.

Dr Owen Emmerson and Claire Ridgway.

Hever Castle is a picture-postcard fortified manor house nestled in the Kent countryside. It is famous for its links with the Boleyns, an East Anglican gentry family who rose and fell dramatically at the court of King Henry VIII. In ‘The Boleyns of Hever Castle’, historians Dr Owen Emmerson and Claire Ridgway invite you into the home of this notorious family.

Travel back in time to those 77 years of Boleyn ownership. Tour each room as it was when Anne Boleyn retreated from court to escape the advances of Henry VIII or when she fought off the dreaded ‘sweat’, See the 16th century Hever Castle come to life with room reconstructions and read the story of the Boleyns, who, in just five generations, rose from petty crime to a castle, from Hever to the throne of England…

Available from the Hever Castle Shop & other outlets.

“A sumptuously illustrated and impecably researched history about the domestic life of a family that shaped British history. This is a fascinating window into both the Boleyns’ lives at Hever and upper-class life on the eve of the Reformation.”

— Gareth Russell, Historian.