Mary Boleyn enjoyed a royal fling with Henry VIII ... and early in the l5th century Geoffrey Boleyn, younger son of a tenant farmer, had come up to London to seek his fortune.

Every writer would like to have a juicy family history to draw upon for their work, but few are as fortunate as Co Galway-based Ann Henning Jocelyn. Her husband Robert Jocelyn, the 10th Earl of ...