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4 unusual facts about Elizabeth Boleyn


Elizabeth Boleyn, Countess of Wiltshire

Anne's two chief biographers, Eric Ives and Retha Warnicke, both concluded that these charges were fabricated.

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.

In 1536 five women were appointed to serve Queen Anne while she was imprisoned in the Tower and to report to Sir William Kingston, the Lieutenant of the Tower, and through him to the King's chief minister, Thomas Cromwell, all that the Queen said.

Elizabeth Wood

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


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.

Hever Castle

He lived there with his wife Lady Elizabeth Howard and their children George, Mary and Anne (the future wife of Henry VIII).

Margery Wentworth

Margery's first cousins, courtiers Elizabeth and Edmund Howard, were parents to an earlier and later royal wife than her daughter: Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard, respectively.


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