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Sylvia Barbara Soberton

Sylvia Barbara Soberton is an author, researcher and independent historian specialising in the Tudor court.  As she completed her degree in Economics, she realized her true calling was in writing about history.

 

Sylvia is passionate about writing the overlooked women back into the historical narrative, hence she started writing her best-selling series of books entitled The Forgotten Tudor Women . Sylvia’s other best-sellers include Golden Age Ladies: Women Who Shaped the courts of Henry VIII and Francis I ; Great Ladies: The Forgotten Witnesses to the Lives of Tudor Queens ; Medical Downfall of the Tudors: Sex, Reproduction & Succession and others. Her latest book is entitled Ladies-in-Waiting: Women Who Served Anne Boleyn and is a culmination of ten years of archival research into Anne Boleyn's household.

 

Sylvia's research was featured in the Smithsonian Magazine , History of Scotland , British Library Electronic Journal and Women's Writers, Women's Books magazine. She also regularly appears on podcasts where she talks about her books and writes guest articles for Tudor-themed websites and blogs.

 

You can find Sylvia on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter @SylviaBSo

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An AI image of Anne Boleyn, Queen of England.

“Lady Bergavenny”: Joanna Neville, Anne Boleyn or Eleanor Stafford? Decoding the Mystery

On 10th April 2016 the article published in the Sunday Time s and Mail Online claimed that a nineteenth-century engraving of a lost portrait of Anne Boleyn had been found on eBay by the best-selling...
Henry VIII's first interview with Anne Boleyn. (Public Domain)

Unlawful Love - Queen Anne Boleyn – Witch or Not?

Queen Anne Boleyn, King Henry VIII’s second wife, was executed on 19 May 1536 on charges of adultery with five men, including her own brother, and plotting the King’s death. She was believed to have...
Queen Katherine Of Aragon – Old And Deformed Wife Of Henry VIII?

Queen Katherine Of Aragon – Old And Deformed Wife Of Henry VIII?

In 1519, the French King Francis I quipped that Henry VIII had “ an old deformed wife, while he himself is young and handsome ”. It is generally assumed that the French King was referring to...
Royal Entry of Queen Mary I with Princess Elizabeth into London by Byam Shaw (1910) (Public Domain)

The Fall of the Leaf: Mary Tudor’s Seasonal Depression

Mary Tudor, daughter of King Henry VIII and Queen Katherine of Aragon was not a happy person. When Mary Tudor's health is discussed, it is usually her phantom pregnancies that are so often...
The Courtship of Anne Boleyn, by Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze (1846) Smithsonian American Art Museum (CC0)

Surprising Intimate Facts About Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII’s Second Queen

Anne Boleyn, the second wife of King Henry VIII , is a historical figure that has captured the imagination of people for centuries. Her story is filled with drama, intrigue, and tragedy, and her...