Had the king really married again without waiting for the Pope’s agreement that the marriage to Catherine of Aragon had never really been valid? Now we had the opportunity to research what happened just a few weeks later, and were delighted to discover the wealth of surviving material. This was because one of the programmes in our flagship arts in education project, in partnership with All Hallows by the Tower, focuses on the weeks in the spring of 1533 when Henry VIII’s second marriage was London’s hottest, and most controversial, rumour. When Clio’s Company was chosen to receive funding to take part in the Show, we decided to base our presence on the coronation of Anne Boleyn. It has just had what was almost certainly its first performance for some 480 years, as part of Clio’s Company’s contribution to the 2013 Lord Mayor’s Show. The song was one of those written for the coronation of Anne Boleyn, and was performed during her progress through the streets of London on 31 st May 1533.
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