💘 Series Introduction: Anne Boleyn & the Art of Courtly Love

How to Catch a King: Anne Boleyn & the Art of Courtly Love

Every girl loves a good love story.

But what if the love story:

• Toppled a marriage,

• Broke with Rome,

• Reshaped a kingdom,

• And ended at the scaffold?

Welcome to one of the most dramatic love sagas in English history: the rise of Anne Boleyn.

For centuries, Anne has been labeled:

• The seductress.

• The witch.

• The homewrecker.

• The “other woman.”

• The queen who lost her head.

But what if we’ve been asking the wrong question?

Instead of asking why Henry VIII fell out of love…
What if we asked how she made him fall in the first place?

This series isn’t about the execution.
It’s not about the scandals.
It’s not even primarily about the Reformation.

It’s about the game.

Specifically: courtly love — the medieval romantic system that shaped how nobles flirted, pursued, rejected, and conquered hearts.

Because Anne didn’t accidentally “catch a king.”

She mastered a centuries-old romantic tradition…and then rewrote the rules.

In this series, we’re investigating:

• 💌 What courtly love actually was

• 👑 Why the Tudors were obsessed with Arthurian romance

• 🎀 How Anne’s European education gave her an edge

• 💋 Why her refusal changed everything

• 🔥 And how turning a king into a knight won her a crown

This isn’t a fairytale.

It’s strategy in silk sleeves.

And it all begins in the Middle Ages…