In the Footsteps of Anne Boleyn
History by day, Spirits by night
October 2012
(Please note that the headings below are links to further information)
An eight day luxury tour led by Natalie Grueninger, founder of On the Tudor Trail – Retracing the steps of Anne Boleyn and Sarah Morris, author of Le Temps Viendra: a novel of Anne Boleyn.
This has been a long time in the making and includes a number of activities that have been custom tailored exclusively for this tour including dining in Hever Castle’s dining room with Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn whilst listening to Tudor musicians play from the Minstrel’s Gallery!
Anne Boleyn by Unknown artist, National Portrait Gallery
The focus will be on following in the footsteps of Anne Boleyn and visiting locations that Anne once visited but we aim to do more than simply this.
We will take you on a tour of the imagination and bring back to life the castles and palaces as Anne would have known them.
Armed with maps and primary sources, we will together uncover the Tudor fabric lying dormant in many of these wonderful locations.
But there is more! This tour combines two areas of interest, Anne Boleyn/Tudor history and a little ghost hunting…
Once all the visitors have left, what will we find lurking in the cobbled alleyways of the Tower of London? Will a private evening tour of Hever Castle, Anne Boleyn’s childhood home, reveal more than just shadows? Will our private and exclusive twilight tour of Penshurst Place encourage its past Tudor inhabitants to show themselves?
You will have to join us to find out!
Over the course of the tour various guest speakers will join us. They include:
Dr Suzannah Lipscomb, an historian, author, and broadcaster specialising in the sixteenth century.
Julia Barrett, an expert in Tudor costume, and mastermind behind the exquisite hand-made costumes for Fallen in Love: the secret heart of Anne Boleyn.
Professor David Loades, a British historian and an expert in Tudor history. David has written extensively on the Tudors including biographies on Henry VIII, Elizabeth I and Mary Tudor. He has recently published a book about the Boleyns.
Each participant will go home with an ‘In the Footsteps of Anne Boleyn’ goody bag and we have planned some other surprises along the way…
Once a confirmed participant of the tour you will also have access to a private group on Facebook where Natalie and Sarah will be available to discuss preparations for the tour and introduce you to other tour members.
If you love Anne Boleyn and are fascinated by the paranormal, then this is the tour for you!
Do not put this off any longer; book now as there are only 20 places available! (only 12 places left as of 24.9.11)
Click here to view the detailed itinerary.
During the tour we will visit:
Tower of London
Sudeley Castle & Gardens
Westminster Abbey
National Portrait Gallery
Hever Castle
The Vyne
Hampton Court Palace
Penshurst Place
Windsor Castle
View the detailed itinerary here.
If this was in February of 2012 I would have already booked as I will be in the UK that entire month! Alas… I will not be in the UK next April! I think this is an incredible concept and you have an amazing entourage of people supporting it! Best Wishes! Kelly Mathews – AllThingsRegal
P.S. I love your site!
Thank you Kelly! Would have been lovely to have you join us. Maybe next time… Stay in touch!
This tour sounds absolutely AMAZING !!!! Great job you guys for putting this together. I only wish I could come along and join you all, maybe if I win the lottery!! Will you be doing this in years to come or does it depend on the success of this tour? I hope everybody that goes along has a wonderful time, I am very jealous indeed !!!!
Thank you Clare! I wish you could come along too. We only have the one tour planned for now but we’ll see how this one progresses and go from there.
Stay in touch!
Oh I am so UBER jealous!!! SO COOL!!! I really wish that I didn’t A) Live in the USA and B)Had enough money to do this….are there any more tours being planned for the future??? Say 2013 or further down the road????
This is such a fantastic idea! You have done a wonderful job planning the itinerary. It would be such a dream to go. If there are still some spot open after baby arrives, I will see how I feel about making the trip without him
Good job for putting together this classy tour!
Oh, how I wish I could attend! I have just reread Norah Lofts The Concubine and re-viewed “Anne of the Thousand Days” so I am wallowing in Anne these days. Wish I could wallow in the tour next year!
Join us Val, you won’t regret it!
Oh, oh, OH. I’m honestly so desperate to do this now! I’m hoping that we’ll be able to stretch financially to do it, but not sure what the husband will say…ah, why can’t I win the lottery?!
I think THIS should have been the prize for the Write Anne Boleyn competition, haha!
OMG, this sounds AMAZING!! will you be doing it again??… I am totally absessed(but not unhealthily so lol) with the Tudors, and Anne is one of the most prominent ones of the time… Mysekf and a friend would LOVE!! to do this.. when will details for another tour come up do you think? and could you please give an idea of price so that I need to know how much to put by
.. ooooo.. this could be a dream come true 
xx
Thank you for your lovely comment. There are no plans for future tours at this stage but I will email you some more information in case you would like to join the tour this October. There are still some places left!