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George Boleyn: Poet, Diplomat, and the Sentence He Read Aloud
He was a poet, a diplomat, and the most trusted male voice in his sister's court. Henry VIII sent him to France to negotiate with kings.
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Henry Percy: Anne Boleyn's First Love, Her Judge, and the Alleged Pre-Contract
He had been her first love. He sentenced her to death. Then his wife claimed he had confessed they were never truly married, because Anne had been his all along.
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Thomas Boleyn After the Fall: The Privy Seal Taken, 29 June 1536
His son was executed on Tower Hill. His daughter was executed two days later. She had been queen. On the twenty-ninth of June 1536 the king's men came for the seal.
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Henry, Duke of Cornwall: The Fifty-Two-Day Prince Whose Death Changed Tudor History
He lived for fifty-two days. In those fifty-two days he was the most important person in England. Everything that came after him was the consequence of his absence.
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Catherine Carey: Mary Boleyn's Daughter and Elizabeth I's Closest Companion
Catherine Carey was born in early 1524 at the precise midpoint of her mother Mary Boleyn's affair with Henry VIII, which is either a coincidence or the most consequential piece of timing in her entire life, depending on which historians you read and how carefully you look at her portraits.