Anne Boleyn

It is not, however, uncharitable to say that dates prove passion and not policy to have suggested the notion.

For from the time when the young and beautiful Anne Boleyn appeared at court in 1522 on her return from France, her father, Sir Thomas Boleyn, had received a shower of honours and profitable employments such as nothing but a strong fancy on the king's part for his daughter would be enough to account for.

It is therefore superfluous to discuss Henry's alleged qualms of conscience as to his marriage, and his misgivings that God had warned him of its unlawfulness by the death of so many of his children in infancy.

However strong and even sincere these may have become at last, their first origin is perfectly plain.

Formidable disturbances again arose in Kent, the rioters declaring that they would seize the Cardinal and place him on the sea in a leaky boat.

The continued suppression of small monasteries had added to his unpopularity, as had also the search which he had ordered for Lutheran books.

Nor was he held in high favour even with Henry himself, having offended him apparently through inadvertence with regard to a trifling appointment in which Anne Boleyn was interested.

There was also difficulty in finding an opportunity of justifying himself, since Henry, in alarm at finding Anne attacked with the sweating sickness, was hurrying from one house to another in unkingly fear for his own safety.

She was 18.

They buried her in the chapel there in an unmarked grave next to Anne Boleyn.

Anne Boleyn was another one of king's wives you've probably heard of.

She was also Catherine's cousin.

The gallery Catherine ran is called the Haunted Gallery now.

Like I kind of, I would read through the history and look at the genealogy and look how it, came down to me you know how i was connected to this ancestor and this one and all that stuff so i always knew in my head a knight a queen and a castle right but um over the years i've studied it more and i've looked at who were these actual people and the thing i find interesting is the interest that i have and i've talked about on this podcast for years they had very similar interests um And for example, like Thomas Wyatt, the senior, he was known as Thomas Wyatt, the poet.

And I like poetry, right? But he was known for like creating the sonnet and he was thought to have been Anne Boleyn's lover.

And I always wondered if he was actually Elizabeth's biological father, but I don't think that there's ever going to be any proof of that because they're never going to like dig her body up and do DNA tests with people like me.

But anyway, poetry, right? And then his son, Thomas Wyatt the Younger, he led a rebellion, and a lot of it had to do with religion, had to do with Protestantism.

Cause I also have a thing, like I talked about a road, whole play.

And there was this connection with the person I grew up with who I try to keep that identity secret.

But I see similarities with like Diana and her brother and Anne Boleyn and her brother and thinking that Thomas Wyatt the Younger was the half brother of Elizabeth.

And there's this thing with family.