Isolda Jourdan reports that she has created an album of photos from the Atlantian 12th Night which took place January 9, 2010 in the Canton of Falconcree. The photos have been posted on PicasaWeb.

The Lady in the Tower, a new book by Tudor scholar Alison Weir, looks at the last four months in the life of Henry VIII's second wife, Anne Boleyn. Janet Maslin of the New York Times has the review.

Diane de Poitiers, mistress of King Henry II of France, was known for her youthful looks, which kept the interest of the king, twenty years her junior, but did her vanity and desperation lead to her death? Experts believe they did.