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		<title>Queen Elizabeth&#8217;s Virginals- Elizabeth&#8217;s or Anne Boleyn&#8217;s?</title>
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				<category><![CDATA[Anne Boleyn]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Anne Boleyn was a skilled musician and according to Eric Ives, &#8220;Her skill in performance is commented on by everyone&#8221; (Pg. 285). Ives believes that it is possible that a case of virginals, known as &#8216;Queen Elizabeth&#8217;s Virginals&#8217; housed at the Victoria and Albert Museum may have originally belonged to Anne Boleyn. Thought to have [&#8230;]]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Anne Boleyn was a skilled musician and according to Eric Ives, &#8220;Her skill in performance is commented on by everyone&#8221; (Pg. 285).</p>
<p>Ives believes that it is possible that a case of virginals, known as &#8216;Queen Elizabeth&#8217;s Virginals&#8217; housed at the <a href="http://www.vam.ac.uk/" target="_blank">Victoria and Albert Museum</a> may have originally belonged to Anne Boleyn.</p>
<p>Thought to have been made during the first part of Elizabeth&#8217;s reign until the date &#8216;1594&#8217; was recently discovered on the jack-rail of the instrument.</p>
<p>The collections department of the museum state that, &#8220;The spinet almost certainly belonged to Elizabeth I. It bears the royal coat of arms and the falcon holding a sceptre, the private emblem of her mother, Anne Boleyn. Elizabeth is reported to have played &#8216;excellently well&#8230;when she was solitary, to shun melancholy&#8217;.&#8221;</p>
<p>The decoration bears the image of a falcon on a tree stump &#8211;  Anne&#8217;s <a href="http://onthetudortrail.com/Blog/anne-boleyn/anne-boleyns-falcon-badge/">Falcon Badge</a>. Ives believes that it is possible that Anne Boleyn was indeed the first owner and that after her death Elizabeth somehow acquired it.</p>
<p>If this is not the case, then Elizabeth was in fact repeating her mother&#8217;s badge and keeping her memory alive. I imagine that all who saw Elizabeth playing the virginals with the falcon badge standing proud would have thought of Anne. It clearly illustrates that even though we have no recorded instances of Elizabeth speaking about her mother, she certainly kept her memory alive and close to her heart.</p>
<p>Click <a href="http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O70511/spinet-the-queen-elizabeth-virginal/" target="_blank">here</a> to see images of the beautifully decorated &#8216;Queen Elizabeth&#8217;s Virginals&#8217; including the falcon badge.</p>
<address>Sources &amp; References</address>
<address>Ives, E. <em>The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn</em>, 2004.</address>
<address><a href="http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O70511/spinet-the-queen-elizabeth-virginal/ " target="_blank">http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O70511/spinet-the-queen-elizabeth-virginal/</a></address>

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