This essay is part of "(There is Nothing New) Under the Sun" A monthly column of random, historical vignettes demonstrating ...

Wolf Hall season two episode five saw Thomas Cromwell's son Gregory return from Henry's new wife, Anne of Cleves, with an excruciating tale of how the King met his fourth bride for the first time ...

and the house of Anne of Cleves (fourth wife of King Henry Vlll). The town attracts a genteel crowd most of the year, but that all changes on bonfire night – when its antique stores and ...