PRICE AND BOOKING
ANNE & ELIZABETH: MOTHER, DAUGHTER, TRAITORS, QUEENS
1-9 MAY 2027
BOOKING INFORMATION
For a summary outline of our tour itinerary, see below.
If you have any questions or encounter difficulties, don’t hesitate to contact us via the contact form here.
Ticket Price
£6,900 per person
Based on double occupancy.
(Double Room with Single Occupancy is priced at £7,950)
If you are a solo traveller but would be open to sharing a room with another traveller, please reach out to us to discuss.
Limited room upgrades are available for our stay at Hever Castle (see the gallery below for the rooms available).
If you are interested, please indicate this at checkout, and we will be in touch to discuss your wishes further.
Room Upgrade Options at Hever Castle
Anne and Elizabeth:
Mother, Daughter, Traitors, Queens
Tour Highlights
Overview of Your Tour Itinerary…
Day One: 1 May – Arrival and Travel to Norfolk
- Pick up at a central London location and transfer to our historic boutique hotel, The Maid’s Head in central Norwich. The hotel is reputed to be one of the oldest in the country and has welcomed Tudor royalty within its walls, including Katherine of Aragon in 1520. The year before, Thomas Wolsey also lodged at the inn. The hotel was also the centre of command for both rebel and royalist forces at various points during Kett’s Rebellion of 1549.
- The central location, adjacent to the cathedral, makes it an ideal place for us to explore Norwich.
- Meet for pre-dinner drinks and enjoy a short welcome talk by our resident historians, Sarah Morris (aka The Tudor Travel Guide) and Adam Pennington (The Tudor Chest), while dining privately in the hotel restaurant.
Day Two: 2 May – Live Like a Tudor Courtier
- Travel to The Old Hall, Norfolk, to be greeted by our hosts, Brigitte and Tom Webster. Brigitte is one of the UK’s leading chefs of authentic Tudor cuisine, and the meticulous restoration of their early sixteenth-century home, including a Tudor garden, is a true portal for time travel!
- We will enjoy a day of Tudor entertainment and feasting. Learn and be instructed in the sport of archery and the noble pastime of falconry.
- In the afternoon, we will sit down to enjoy an authentic Tudor feast (with dishes known to have been served to Henry VIII while on progress in 1533).
- After dinner, relax at our boutique hotel as the sun sets over the Norfolk countryside.
Day Three: 3 May – Blickling Hall and Norwich Cathedral
- After breakfast, travel to Blickling Hall, once the Boleyn family home and thought to be the birthplace of the Boleyn children, including Anne.
- We will tour the house, and afterwards, stroll down to the local church to see the brasses commemorating some of Anne Boleyn’s forefathers. Along the way, we will be joined by Claire Martin, author of ‘Heirs of Ambition: The Making of the Boleyns‘, who will talk to us about the rise of the Boleyn family in the county where it all started.
- After lunch, we will transfer to Norwich Cathedral to see the resting place of Anne Boleyn’s great-grandmother, Anne Hoo (who married Geoffrey Boleyn) and her grandfather, William. Afterwards, Sarah will lead a short walk through Norwich’s old town before ending back at the Maid’s Head Hotel.
- We recognise that sometimes people just want some alone time, and so on this evening, we give our guests the evening off. Our Norfolk hotel is located in the city centre of Norwich, and so restaurant options are readily accessible. We will provide our own recommendations nearer the time.
Day Four: 4 May St Margaret’s Church, Tivetshall and Hatfield House
- After breakfast, we check out of our hotel and travel by minibus to the cradle of the Elizabethan age: Hatfield House. On the way, we will take a short detour deep into the heart of the Norfolk countryside to see a rare Boleyn treasure: the tympanum that fuses the heraldry of Elizabeth I with her mother’s white falcon badge
- Once at Hatfield, we will tour the Jacobean house and see artefacts on display, said to have belonged to Elizabeth I.
- After lunch, we leave Hatfield and head into central London, where we will meet for a leisurely dinner in the hotel and share stories of all we have seen.
Day Five: 5 May – The Tower of London
- Our fifth day is dedicated to exploring the Tower, where, alongside our Blue Badge Guide, we will tour this historic building and visit key spaces associated with Anne and Elizabeth’s stories. Always a memorable – and moving – day!
- In the afternoon, we are including some free time for you to continue to explore the Tower at your leisure, or you might simply choose to head back to the hotel to rest ahead of our evening out together
- For dinner, we dine at Dishoom!, a regular and vibrant dining experience on the Simply Tudor Tours itineraries.
Day Six: 6 May – Westminster Abbey
- Our sixth day is spent exploring Westminster Abbey. Along the way, we will focus on the coronation ceremony. We will share tales of the coronations of both Anne and her shining legacy, Elizabeth I. We will also hear stories from your cohosts about the rediscovery of the burial vault of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York in the 1800s.
- Visit the tombs of Anne of Cleves, Elizabeth I, Mary I, Edward VI, Mary, Queen of Scots and Margaret Beaufort.
- Head up to the Jubilee Galleries to see artefacts belonging to the Tudor dynasty, including the funeral effigies of Elizabeth of York, Elizabeth I, Mary I and Margaret Beaufort’s Book of Hours.
- From Westminster Abbey, we will catch a Clipper boat and travel to Greenwich via the Thames, just as Anne and Elizabeth would have when moving between London’s royal palaces. See the city from a completely different angle before alighting at Greenwich Pier. There will be a brief opportunity to see the site of the now lost Greenwich Palace before catching our coach for the onward journey to Hever Castle. We will have exclusive use of the Atsor wing during our three-night stay.
Day Seven: 7 May – Knole
- On this day, we journey into the Kentish countryside to visit one of the great houses of Elizabethan England: Knole House. Once an archepiscopal palace and later transformed into a magnificent showpiece home, Knole became a fitting stage for the display of royal power during Elizabeth’s reign.
- Accompanied by our guide, we will explore the grand state rooms and more intimate private apartments, uncovering how houses such as Knole were used to host the queen and her court during the great royal progresses of the sixteenth century. There will also be the opportunity to ascend to the attic spaces, only recently opened to the public, offering a rare glimpse into the hidden workings of this extraordinary house.
- During our time at Knole, we will hear from celebrated historian and author Sarah Gristwood, who will explore how Elizabeth used progresses to project her authority and cultivate the enduring image of Gloriana, the Virgin Queen.
- Later in the afternoon, we return to Hever Castle, where a truly special evening awaits. After the castle has closed to the public, we will enjoy a private, out-of-hours tour, including access to the current exhibition dedicated to Anne Boleyn’s portraiture.
- As dusk settles over the grounds, we gather for an alfresco dining experience on the lawns surrounding the Astor Wing, bringing the day to a close in the most atmospheric of settings.
Day Eight: 8 May – Hever Castle
- Today is devoted entirely to Hever Castle, the childhood home of Anne Boleyn and the setting for some of the most formative years of her life. Surrounded by its tranquil moat, gardens and parkland, this is a place where the past feels close at hand, inviting us to slow down, explore at leisure, and imagine the world Anne once knew.
- There will be ample time to wander through the castle and its grounds, to absorb the atmosphere and to pull back the veil of time on a life that would go on to shape the course of English history. For those who wish, your guides will lead a walk to St Peter’s Church, Hever, where members of the Boleyn family lie at rest, including Sir Thomas Boleyn and Anne’s young brother, Henry.
- In the evening, a drinks reception will be followed by a very special banquet in the Great Hall itself—the very space where the Boleyns once dined and entertained. With live Tudor music and the promise of some unexpected guests, the evening offers a fittingly dramatic finale to our time at Hever.
Day Nine: 9 May – Departure
- Following breakfast at the hotel, we will say our final farewells. We will provide transport back to central London for anyone who needs it.
MEET YOUR HOSTS
YOUR TOUR CO-HOSTS
Sarah
Morris
Founder of ‘The Tudor Travel Guide’ and ‘The Ultimate Guide to Exploring Tudor England’. Author of ‘In the Footsteps of Anne Boleyn’ and ‘In the Footsteps of the Six Wives of Henry VIII’.
Adam
Pennington
Founder of ‘The Tudor Chest’ blog and podcast, historian and author of ‘Henry VIII and the Plantagenet Poles – The Rise and Fall of a Dynasty’, coming summer 2024.
Guest Experts
Sarah
Gristwood
Sarah Gristwood is a writer, historian, biographer, and broadcaster whose work has consistently illuminated the lives of women past, including much-loved books about the Tudor era, including Elizabeth and Leicester, Blood Sisters and The Tudors in Love.
Claire
Martin
Claire specialises in the late Medieval period. Her first book, Heirs of Ambition: The Making of the Boleyns, is the first in-depth look at the family of Anne Boleyn and their rise from Norfolk peasant farmers to one of England’s most prominent families.
Elizabeth
Norton
Dr Elizabeth Norton is a historian and author. She specialises in writing about the Queens of England and the Tudor period—her published works include The Boleyn Women and one of Sarah’s personal favourites, Anne Boleyn: In Her Own Words & the Words of Those Who Knew Her.
Brigitte Webster
TudorExperience.com
Brigitte trained and served as a school teacher for 25 years. Her qualifications were in history and cooking, a combination that finally came together a few years ago in her new career as a culinary historian. She recently released her new book, Eating with the Tudors, a fabulous collection of authentic Tudor recipes. The Tudor and 17th Century Experience (TudorExperience.com) is a venture that finally allows her to share her passion for all things Tudor with a broader audience from their early sixteenth-century manor house in Norfolk.
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