Anne Boleyn death with festivities. In Spain, the home country of Catherine of Aragon, yellow was the colour of mourning, in addition to black. For this reason, the wearing of yellow by Henry and Anne may have been a symbol of mourning. With Mary's mother dead, Anne attempted to make peace with her. Mary rebuffed Anne's overtures, perhaps because of rumours circulating that Catherine had been poisoned by Anne or Henry. These began after the discovery during her embalming that Catherine's heart was blackened. Modern medical experts are in agreement that this was not the result of poisoning, but of cancer of
Jane Anne Russell Jane Anne Russell Jane Anne Russell (also called Jane Anne Russell Wilhelmi, 1911–1967) was an endocrinologist. She researched pituitary extract. Russell graduated from Long Beach Polytechnic High School, California, in 1928, as the second best student in her class. She pursued a Bachelor of Arts degree at University of California Berkeley, and graduated in 1932 as first in her class. She was awarded the California Fellowship in Biochemistry in 1934 and the Rosenburg Fellowship in 1935. Russell's PhD studies were at the Institute of Experimental Biology at the University of California, focusing on the study of pituitary hormones in carbohydrate