Hever Castle, Kent, the childhood home of Anne Boleyn, will unveil the Boleyn Apartment on the first floor of the castle on Monday 25 March to give visitors a unique and immersive experience of Tudor history.

The apartment, the only surviving suite of rooms in the world that the Boleyn family definitely occupied, is being re-interpreted with Tudor artefacts, and furnishings to create an authentic atmosphere. Rooms in other houses lived in by the Boleyn family have either been destroyed or modified beyond their recognition.

Visitors entering the Castle will learn about the vision of former owner, William Waldorf Astor. Once the richest man in America, he bought the Castle in 1903 with a view to making it a showpiece house in which to entertain and show off his art collection.

The influence of Anne Boleyn herself will then become apparent as guests enter the Parlour, before climbing the spiral staircase to the Children’s Bedchamber, which was formerly Anne Boleyn’s Bedroom, before passing through to the Great Chamber and then the Best Bedchamber – formerly the Queens’ Chamber.

The tapestries, friezes, furniture, coats of arms and aromas, will help visitors feel like they are walking in the shoes of the family who lived there.

Castle Historian Kate McCaffrey said: “We are thrilled to announce our plans for the Boleyn Apartment. We wanted to create an immersive series of rooms that lets the visitor step back in time to the world of Anne Boleyn and her family – Hever’s most famous inhabitants. We have an incredibly rare, unique opportunity to use these rooms as they would have been used and sell them as the only place in the world that you can go to enjoy a real, authentic Boleyn experience.”