Anne Boleyn apartment reopens after renovations
The childhood home of Anne Boleyn will reopen on Wednesday after undergoing major restoration.
The Boleyn Apartment at Hever Castle, in Kent, has been reimagined with 16th-century artefacts and offers an insight into how the Boleyn family would have lived.
Visitors can explore Anne’s journey from child to the ill-fated wife of King Henry VIII, now the six-month renovation is complete.
Castle historian Kate McCaffrey said she was “thrilled” to unveil the apartment’s redesign.
Work began in January and was set to finish in March, but was delayed due to a change in the project’s direction.
“We wanted to create a series of rooms that lets the visitor step back in time to the world of Anne Boleyn and her family,” said Ms McCaffrey.
“We’ve had an incredibly rare opportunity to display these rooms as they would have been used and present them sympathetically.”
Each room in the apartment represents a different time in Anne’s life, and Tudor historian Dr David Starkey said Hever Castle had changed so little that Anne would still recognise it today.
“She would even be able to find her way to the room where she slept,” he said.
Artefacts on display include furniture items, musical instruments, writing materials and books.
Visitor can even explore the bedchamber where Anne would have slept. Historians believe it is here where the future queen read most of Henry’s love letters, which are now kept in the Vatican Library.
The apartment is the only known surviving suite of rooms that the Boleyn family definitely occupied, according to Hever Castle.
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