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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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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.
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Mary Boleyn: The Boleyn Daughter Who Survived Everything
Mary Boleyn was born around 1499 or 1500, the eldest daughter of Thomas Boleyn and Elizabeth Howard, at the family estate of Blickling Hall in Norfolk, and history has spent five hundred years treating her as a footnote in her own sister's story.
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Mary Boleyn Widowed: William Carey's Death from the Sweat, 22 June 1528
Henry VIII's solution was to give her son to her sister. She had been his mistress. Her husband died of the sweating sickness on the twenty-second of June 1528 and left her destitute with two small children, and that was what Henry was going to do about it.
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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.