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Boleyn

Boleyn Ground in London, often also known as Upton Park, the football stadium of West Ham United F.C.


Anne Bourchier, Baroness Dacre

Mary Fiennes (1495–1531), Maid of Honour to Mary Tudor, Queen of France, and Queen Claude of France married Sir Henry Norris, who was executed for treason as one of the alleged lovers of Queen Anne Boleyn.

Anne Savage

Anne Savage, maiden name of Anne Berkeley, Baroness Berkeley (c. 1496–before 1546), lady-in-waiting to Anne Boleyn, second wife of Henry VIII of England

Doomed Queen Anne

The first report of Anne Boleyn having any kind of deformity was brought up by Nicholas Sanders, long after her death.

Elizabeth Boleyn, Lady Boleyn

These women included Lady Elizabeth Boleyn; Queen Anne's aunt, Lady Anne Shelton; Lady Mary Kingston, the wife of Sir William Kingston, the Lieutenant of the Tower; Lady Margaret Coffin, the wife of Queen Anne's Master of the Horse; and Elizabeth Stoner, wife of the King's Serjeant-at-Arms.

Elizabeth Wood

Elizabeth Boleyn, Lady Boleyn, née Elizabeth Wood (fl. 1530s), one of the chief witnesses against her niece, Anne Boleyn

Eric Ives

His theories on her life have drawn him into fierce debate with the American historian Retha Warnicke, who wrote The Rise and Fall of Anne Boleyn in 1989 to challenge Ives's findings.

French hood

It was also championed by Anne Boleyn's cousin and fellow ill-fated wife of Henry VIII, Catherine Howard.

Garden Museum

The church originally housed the 15th and 16th century tombs of many members of the Howard family, including now-lost memorial brasses to Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk (died 1524), his wife Agnes Tilney, Duchess of Norfolk (died 1545) and is also the burial place of Queen Anne Boleyn's mother Elizabeth Boleyn, formerly Howard.

Jane Boleyn, Viscountess Rochford

She also features in Robin Maxwell's The Secret Diary of Anne Boleyn, Suzannah Dunn's The Queen of Subtleties and briefly in Margaret George's The Autobiography of Henry VIII.

Lady Bridget Wingfield

Sir Richard died in 1525, and she married secondly, Sir Nicholas Harvey of Ickworth, Ambassador to Emperor Charles V, but a loyal supporter of Anne Boleyn.

Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshire

Thomas Boleyn has been portrayed by Sir Michael Hordern in Anne of the Thousand Days (1969), by Benjamin Whitrow in Henry VIII, and by Jack Shepherd and Mark Rylance in the 2003 and 2008 film versions of The Other Boleyn Girl, respectively.

Upton Park, London

Upton Park F.C was founded in 1866, and is believed to have folded for the second and last time around 1911, while West Ham United, an unrelated organisation, were founded as Thames Ironworks F.C. in 1895, before reforming as West Ham in 1900, playing their first games at Upton Park, the Boleyn Ground, from 1904.

Violet Vanbrugh

Back in England in 1891, she joined Henry Irving and Ellen Terry at the Lyceum Theatre as Anne Boleyn in his successful revival of King Henry VIII.

W. S. Pakenham-Walsh

His strong interest in Anne Boleyn began in 1917 during his missionary trip in Foochow, when he found in the Foochow British Community Library books related to Anne Boleyn's life.


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