“Blickling Hall, one of England’s greatest Jacobean showpiece mansions, lies not two miles north-west of Aylsham in Norfolk.  It is a beautiful place, surrounded by woods, farms, sweeping parkland and gardens – gardens that were old in the fifteenth century, and which once surrounded the fifteenth-century moated manor house of the Boleyn family, the predecessor of the present building……Blickling was where the Boleyn siblings’ lives probably began, the protective setting for their infant years, nestling in the broad, rolling landscape of Norfolk, circled by a wilderness of woodland sprinkled with myriad flowers such as bluebells, meadowsweet, loosestrife and marsh orchids, and swept by the eastern winds.” (Thursday 17 May; Saturday 19 May; Sunday 20 May)

Alison Weir: Mary Boleyn ‘The Great and Infamous Whore’