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| 32 | <img border="0" src="../maryboleyn.gif" alt="Mary Boleyn" width="493" height="144"></p>
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| 34 | <img border="2" src="maryboleynunknown.jpg" width="359" height="480" alt="portrait of Mary Boleyn by an unknown artist"></p>
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| 35 | <blockquote>
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| 36 | <p align="left"><br><font face="Arial" size="4">Mary Boleyn was the sister of
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| 37 | King Henry VIII's second wife, the infamous Anne Boleyn. But she was
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| 38 | also the king's mistress before her sister's ascendancy. She may also have given birth
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| 39 | to Henry's son.</font></p>
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| 50 | <blockquote>
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| 53 |
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| 54 | <p>Information about the life of Mary Boleyn is sketchy at best.
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| 55 |
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| 56 | Before her sister's ascendancy, Mary was the most famous member of her
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| 57 |
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| 58 | family, a dubious honor since it was based upon her adulterous affair with
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| 59 |
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| 60 | King Henry VIII. There has been great debate over the exact year
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| 61 |
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| 62 | of her birth, with many researchers unable to agree on which Boleyn sister
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| 63 |
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| 64 | was older. Some speculate Anne was born in 1501 or 1502; others place
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| 65 |
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| 66 | it at 1507. The most recent scholarship supports 1507 as the year
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| 68 | of Anne's birth. Mary was born a year later, in 1508. Their
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| 69 |
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| 70 | only surviving sibling was an older brother George, born in 1503.
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| 71 |
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| 72 | <p> Mary was born at Hever Castle, the family seat.
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| 73 |
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| 74 | She was named after Princess Mary Tudor, the youngest child of Henry VII
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| 75 |
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| 76 | and Elizabeth of York. Her family was loyal to the Tudor dynasty
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| 77 |
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| 78 | but had Yorkist connections. Her mother was Elizabeth Howard, daughter
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| 79 |
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| 80 | of Thomas, earl of Surrey. His father, the 1st duke of Norfolk, had
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| 81 |
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| 82 | died fighting for Richard III against Henry VII. Mary's father, Thomas
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| 83 |
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| 84 | Boleyn, could trace his ancestry only to the 13th century. His family
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| 85 |
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| 86 | was originally from Norfolk where they lived as tenant farmers. In
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| 87 |
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| 88 | 1457, a Sir Geoffrey Boleyn was serving as Lord Mayor of London.
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| 89 |
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| 90 | He wed Anne, heiress of Lord Hoo and Hastings, and - through her - acquired
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| 91 |
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| 92 | Hever Castle in Kent and Blickling Hall in Norfolk. His son became
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| 93 |
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| 94 | a knight under Richard III and a baron under Henry VII. He married
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| 95 |
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| 96 | a great heiress as well; she was Margaret, daughter of Thomas Butler, 7th
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| 97 |
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| 98 | earl of Ormond. He was incredibly wealthy and bequeathed Margaret
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| 99 |
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| 100 | 36 manors. Their eldest child was Thomas Boleyn, Mary's father.
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| 101 |
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| 102 | Thomas had married Elizabeth Howard by 1501. Their three surviving
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| 103 |
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| 104 | children were born within the next 10 years.
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| 105 |
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| 106 | <p> In 1512, Thomas was one of three envoys assigned
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| 107 |
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| 108 | to the regent of Netherlands court. His skill in speaking French
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| 110 | and his family connections secured the appointment. Once there, he
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| 111 |
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| 112 | was a great success with the regent, Margaret, archduchess of Austria.
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| 113 |
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| 114 | He used this friendship to secure a prestigious appointment for his eldest
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| 115 |
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| 116 | daughter, Anne; she was to reside with the regent's wards, sharing their
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| 117 |
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| 118 | royal education. This is the primary evidence that Anne was the elder
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| 119 |
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| 120 | sister. In such cases, the elder sister would receive the opportunity
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| 122 | first.
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| 123 |
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| 124 | <p> However, Mary was married before Anne - an unusual
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| 126 | occurrence and one which led many to believe Mary was older. However,
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| 127 |
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| 128 | it is completely plausible that Anne was not married first because she
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| 129 |
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| 130 | was still in Europe, gaining a royal education and hoping to wed a foreign
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| 131 |
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| 132 | nobleman. Mary, on the other hand, wed a man named William Carey,
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| 133 |
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| 134 | a gentleman of the royal privy chamber on 4 February 1520. Though
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| 135 |
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| 136 | he was not a titled lord, his duties meant he had intimate contact with
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| 137 |
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| 138 | the king on a daily basis. He would be a valuable connection for
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| 139 |
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| 140 | the Boleyns. Henry used his attendants, with whom he spent his leisure
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| 141 |
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| 142 | hours, to carry out government work. Carey was 24 years old and Mary
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| 144 | not quite twelve, young even for 16th century marriage. The consummation
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| 146 | of the marriage was probably delayed for a few years.
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| 147 |
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| 148 | <p> Mary's wedding was held a few weeks before her father
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| 149 |
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| 150 | returned from a mission abroad. This indicates that Thomas Boleyn
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| 151 |
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| 152 | had planned the marriage well in advance. The king gave the newlyweds
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| 153 |
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| 154 | a cash present - 6s.8d.; this was undoubtedly welcome since William Carey
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| 155 |
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| 156 | was a younger son and lacked money and lands. Henry's favor (and,
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| 157 |
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| 158 | more particularly, Mary's affair with Henry) helped in this respect - before
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| 159 |
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| 160 | his death in 1528, William had received two keeperships, a stewardship,
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| 161 |
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| 162 | an annuity, and manors in two counties. As to William's ancestry,
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| 163 |
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| 164 | he could trace his descent from Edward III; his mother was a cousin of
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| 165 |
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| 166 | Margaret Beaufort, Henry VII's mother. His aunt Catherine Spencer
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| 167 |
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| 168 | was married to Henry, fifth earl of Northumberland.
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| 169 |
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| 170 | <p> As William's wife, Mary had lodgings at court, information
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| 171 |
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| 172 | about royal policies, and the great opportunity to participate in all court
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| 173 |
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| 174 | events. Their first child, Catherine, was born about 1524 when Mary
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| 176 | was just sixteen. Meanwhile, her family continued its ascendancy
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| 177 |
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| 178 | during these years. Personally, she and her sister Anne were two
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| 179 |
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| 180 | of eight women who participated in a celebration at York Place, Cardinal
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| 181 |
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| 182 | Wolsey's home. Anne played Perseverance and Mary was Kindness; they
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| 183 |
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| 184 | were clothed in white satin with bejeweled headdresses. This was
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| 185 |
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| 186 | in 1522; Mary was just fourteen. By the time she was seventeen, Mary
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| 187 |
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| 188 | was a first-time mother and Henry VIII's mistress. There is much
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| 189 |
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| 190 | circumstantial evidence to support this:
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| 191 |
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| 192 | <blockquote>
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| 193 | <p>* in 1527, Henry was planning to marry Anne Boleyn. He
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| 194 |
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| 195 | sought and received a papal dispensation to marry the sister of a woman
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| 196 |
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| 197 | with whom he had engaged in illicit/unlawful intercourse. Anne had
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| 198 |
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| 199 | only one sister - Mary. </p>
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| 200 |
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| 201 | <p>* Reginald Pole reported the following - in 1528, a member of Parliament
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| 202 |
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| 203 | insulted the king's morals by accusing Henry of sleeping with Anne's mother
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| 204 |
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| 205 | <i>and</i>
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| 206 |
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| 207 | sister. Undoubtedly flustered, the king replied: "Never with
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| 209 | her mother."
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| 210 |
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| 211 | <p>* the affair was known of in diplomatic circles - in 1532, Francis I
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| 212 |
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| 213 | of France met Mary face-to-face when she accompanied Henry and Anne to
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| 214 |
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| 215 | Calais. He mentioned her infamous behavior with her sister's spouse
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| 216 |
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| 217 | <i>before</i>
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| 218 |
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| 219 | the marriage to Anne.</blockquote>
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| 220 |
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| 221 | <p> The affair was brief, ending in mid-1525 (probably July.)
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| 222 |
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| 223 | On 4 March 1526, Mary gave birth to a son, called Henry. He was widely
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| 224 |
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| 225 | assumed to be the king's son. He physically resembled the king, a
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| 226 |
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| 227 | fact often remarked upon. In 1535, for example, a man called 'young
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| 228 |
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| 229 | Master Carey' the king's son. </p>
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| 230 |
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| 231 | <p> Perhaps more telling, Henry granted the Careys actual
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| 232 |
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| 233 | manors and estates during the affair and immediately before the child's
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| 234 |
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| 235 | birth. Before, the Careys had been granted rather minor offices.
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| 236 |
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| 237 | (You may recall that Henry publicly acknowledged another illegitimate son,
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| 238 |
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| 239 | born in 1519. This boy was called <a href="../fitzroy.html">Henry
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| 240 |
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| 241 | Fitzroy</a> - the surname traditionally given to royal bastards - and was
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| 242 |
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| 243 | ennobled, given the title duke of Richmond. If Henry Carey was also
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| 244 |
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| 245 | his son, why didn't Henry do the same for him? The answer lies in
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| 246 |
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| 247 | his determination to divorce Katharine of Aragon and marry <a href="../monarchs/boleyn.html">Anne
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| 248 |
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| 249 | Boleyn</a>, the child's aunt. It is likely that even Henry VIII would
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| 250 |
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| 251 | have been too embarrassed to recognize his bastard son by his fiancee's
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| 252 |
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| 253 | younger sister.) Henry Carey was eventually ennobled as Lord Hunsdon by
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| 254 | Elizabeth I, the queen who may have been his half-sister and was undoubtedly his
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| 255 | cousin. Though he served her ably, Elizabeth only offered Hunsdon a title
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| 256 | upon his deathbed. To this dubious honor, the old man aptly replied that
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| 257 | if the queen hadn't thought him worth it while he was in health, he would not
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| 258 | accept it while ill.<p> Mary Boleyn was referenced in <a href="../lovelett.html">Henry's
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| 259 |
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| 260 | love letters to Anne</a> in 1528, the year her husband died. William
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| 261 |
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| 262 | had asked Mary to seek her sister's influence with the king; his elder
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| 263 |
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| 264 | sister, Eleanor, wanted the position of abbess at St Edith's Nunnery.
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| 265 |
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| 266 | The nuns wanted their prioress elevated to the position instead.
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| 267 |
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| 268 | Anne asked the king to intervene. In the end, Eleanor's dubious moral
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| 269 |
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| 270 | destroyed her chances. But the episode demonstrates Anne's willingness
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| 272 | to help Mary; also, Mary clearly expected to benefit from her sister's
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| 273 |
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| 274 | closeness to the king.
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| 275 |
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| 276 | <p> William Carey died on 23 June 1528 and Henry VIII
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| 277 |
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| 278 | promptly granted Anne Boleyn the wardship of her nephew (and possibly his
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| 279 |
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| 280 | son), two-year-old Henry Carey. In another letter to Anne, Henry
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| 281 |
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| 282 | remarked upon Mary's easy virtue. He and Anne were concerned that,
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| 283 |
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| 284 | after William's death, Mary's behavior would degenerate; in other words,
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| 285 |
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| 286 | she would be an embarrassment to the king and his intended wife.
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| 287 |
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| 288 | <p> In November 1530, Henry gave Anne 20 pds to redeem
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| 289 |
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| 290 | a jewel from Mary; it was probably a gambling debt. Two years later,
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| 291 |
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| 292 | Mary was one of thirty ladies who accompanied Henry and Anne on a visit
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| 293 |
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| 294 | to France (colorfully known to history as 'The Field of the Cloth of Gold'.)
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| 295 |
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| 296 | They stayed in Calais in late October, attending various events with Francis
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| 297 |
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| 298 | I; ostensibly, they were celebrating a new peace agreement. But it
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| 299 |
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| 300 | was also a chance to present Anne to a foreign king. When Henry wed
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| 301 |
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| 302 | Anne in 1533, Mary became a lady-in-waiting to her sister. It was
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| 303 |
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| 304 | only in 1534 that she and Anne had a serious conflict.
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| 305 |
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| 306 | <p> In 1534, Mary secretly married William Stafford.
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| 307 |
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| 308 | He was the younger son of Humphrey Stafford of Blatherwick in Northampton.
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| 309 |
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| 310 | This marriage was a disaster for her, excepting her personal happiness.
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| 311 |
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| 312 | Mary undoubtedly loved Stafford, a soldier she had met at Calais (he had
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| 313 |
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| 314 | been part of Henry VIII's retinue.) But her relatives - all newly
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| 315 |
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| 316 | ennobled and very self-conscious about their status - were outraged.
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| 317 |
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| 318 | He was a commoner, not fit for the queen's sister. Accordingly, Mary
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| 319 |
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| 320 | and her new husband were banished from court. (It is quite possible
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| 321 |
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| 322 | that her relatives planned to wed Mary to a nobleman, further cementing
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| 323 |
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| 324 | their rise to prominence; instead, her marriage was a step backwards socially.)
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| 325 |
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| 326 | In late 1534, while her father and brother received numerous grants, titles,
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| 327 |
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| 328 | and other gifts, Mary was reduced to begging Thomas Cromwell for assistance.
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| 329 |
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| 330 | Would he speak to Henry on her behalf? Mary hoped Henry would persuade
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| 331 |
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| 332 | Anne to forgive her but her former lover was less than helpful. So
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| 333 |
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| 334 | Mary asked Cromwell to speak to her father, her uncle, and her brother.
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| 335 |
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| 336 | <p> Meanwhile, her son was still living with his
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| 337 |
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| 338 | aunt, Queen Anne. He was being tutored by the great French poet,
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| 339 |
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| 340 | Nicholas Bourbon, clearly benefiting from the wardship. His mother's
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| 341 |
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| 342 | life between 1534 and her sister's execution in 1536 is difficult to trace.
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| 343 |
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| 344 | She seems to have resided at Rochford, Essex from the time of her disgrace
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| 345 |
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| 346 | to her death on 19 July 1543. When her sister fell into disfavor
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| 347 |
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| 348 | and Henry sought a divorce, his earlier affair with Mary was mentioned.
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| 349 |
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| 350 | Perhaps this would justify an annulment, even as Katharine of Aragon's
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| 351 |
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| 352 | marriage to his brother had? But no one seriously considered this
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| 354 | (after all, there had been a papal dispensation) and it was more expedient
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| 355 |
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| 356 | to press other charges. Mary did not visit her sister when Anne was
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| 357 |
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| 358 | imprisoned in the Tower. Nor did she visit their brother George,
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| 359 |
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| 360 | also condemned to death. There is no evidence that she wrote to them,
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| 361 |
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| 362 | either. Like their uncle, the duke of Norfolk, she may have thought
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| 363 |
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| 364 | it wise to avoid association with her disgraced relatives.
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| 365 |
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| 366 | <p> Mary lived to see her children gain some royal favor.
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| 367 |
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| 368 | Her teenage daughter Catherine (born 1524) was appointed a maid of honor
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| 369 |
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| 370 | to Anne of Cleves, Henry VIII's fourth wife. Sometime in 1540, she
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| 371 |
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| 372 | made a good match, marrying Sir Francis Knollys. He was a member
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| 373 |
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| 374 | of Henry VIII's household. She also became one of her cousin Elizabeth
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| 375 |
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| 376 | Tudor's closest friends. Her daughter, Lettice Knollys, would later
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| 377 |
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| 378 | marry Elizabeth's great love, Robert Dudley; her son, the earl of Essex,
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| 379 |
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| 380 | would also be one of Elizabeth's favorites (though eventually executed
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| 381 |
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| 382 | for treason.) Henry Carey, whose paternity was the subject of such
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| 383 |
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| 384 | speculation, would be ennobled as Lord Hunsdon in Elizabeth's reign.
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| 385 |
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| 386 | Elizabeth was kind to her Boleyn relatives, especially Mary's children.
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| 387 |
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| 388 | Twenty-two years after Anne Boleyn's execution, a Boleyn was sole ruler
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| 389 |
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| 390 | of England. It was a triumph few could have predicted.<p> <hr WIDTH="100%">
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| 391 |
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| 392 | <p>
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| 393 |
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| 394 | <font size="2">Some other stuff about Mary Boleyn that I've found: </font>
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| 395 | </p>
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| 396 |
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| 397 | <p><font size="2">* Mary was considered more conventionally beautiful than Anne but lacked
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| 398 |
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| 399 | her sister's style and wit.
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| 400 |
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| 401 | <br>* As a child, Mary was taught French by Mademoiselle Semmonet;
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| 402 |
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| 403 | she also studied music (practicing on the lute, harp, viol, and virginals.)
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| 404 |
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| 405 | <br>* Mary also spent time in Archduchess Margaret's service; she was removed
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| 406 |
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| 407 | in 1518/19 by her father and placed in Katharine of Aragon's service.
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| 408 |
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| 409 | <br>* Anne and George Boleyn were very close and reportedly had little
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| 411 | use for their sister, Mary. (This was reported by several foreign
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| 412 |
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| 413 | ambassadors.) </font>
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| 414 |
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| 415 | <p><font size="2">Note: I have read that Mary Boleyn accompanied Princess Mary Tudor
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| 416 |
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| 417 | to France, as a lady-in-waiting. However, the trip occurred in 1515;
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| 418 |
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| 419 | Mary would have been just 7 years old - so the assertion seems unlikely. </font>
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| 420 |
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| 421 | <p><font size="2">So the following questions remain:
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| 422 |
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| 423 | <br> * did she accompany Mary to France?
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| 424 |
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| 425 | <br> * did she use her influence with Mary Tudor to get
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| 426 |
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| 427 | Anne a position as lady-in-waiting to Katharine of Aragon (thus allowing
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| 428 |
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| 429 | Henry VIII and Anne to meet?) This has been mentioned in several
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| 430 |
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| 431 | books but, as I stated, it would mean Mary was a lady-in-waiting at the
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| 432 |
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| 433 | age of seven. </font>
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| 434 |
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| 435 | <p><font size=-1>I have used the spelling 'Boleyn' instead of 'Bullen'
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| 436 |
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| 437 | for one simple reason - it is how the family chose to spell it when they
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| 438 |
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| 439 | first rose to prominence. Certainly they thought 'Boleyn' was more
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| 440 |
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| 441 | elegant - I'll stay mum on that issue, but since most history texts also
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| 442 |
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| 443 | use 'Boleyn', it remains less confusing than switching between two surnames.</font><p align="center"><b>
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| 444 | <font face="Times New Roman">
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| 445 | <a href="../monarchs/boleyn.html">Visit the
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| 446 | Anne Boleyn website</a>.</font></b></p>
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| 447 |
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| 448 | <center>
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| 449 |
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| 450 | <p><font size=-1><a href="../citizens.html">to
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| 451 |
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| 452 | Tudor Citizens</a></font><br><font size=-1><a href="http://englishhistory.net/tudor.html">to Tudor
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| 453 |
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| 454 | England</a></font></center>
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| 455 |
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| 456 | </blockquote>
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| 457 | </blockquote>
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| 458 |
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