Who’s coming to dinner?

I love history. I love reading and learning about the past; the people, the places, the palaces, the feuds, the tragedies and the sad lives of every day folk. I find it endlessly fascinating.
I’m very lucky. I’ve travelled widely and visited many wonderful places and the history of each place has kept me interested and keen to learn more but I admit that it is our own history that interests me most.
Someone once asked me which period of history I like most and I had no hesitation in saying The Tudors. When they then asked which person from that period I’d invite to dinner there was again no hesitation. Anne Boleyn.
My interest in this most influential of English queens began when I saw Anne of a Thousand Days. I was utterly mesmerised. The costumes, the sets, the beauty of Genevieve Bujold but long after the film ended, it was the appalling tragedy of her story that stayed with me. I was only about thirteen at the time but I began to read every book about her I could find.
If I could invite a ghost to dinner, I would invite Anne. The second wife of Henry Vlll would, in my humble opinion, be the most entertaining and interesting of dinner guests. Why? Well, that will be the subject of my next blog. Meanwhile, whose ghost would you invite to dinner? Please do let me know!

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