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About this book
Anne Boleyn, the second wife of Henry VIII, was executed on 19 May 1536. Her sister Mary, rumoured mistress to the monarch, lived on and survived the king's wrath. But this is not the end of the tale of the Boleyns and the British Royal family – their stories have remained entwined for almost 500 years, through countless wars, crises and triumphs.
In this book, Amanda Harvey Purse delves into the archives to tell the remarkable story of a number of individuals who form part of the Boleyn bloodline, spanning the worlds of the military, art and politics. Among those featured are Robert Devereux, executed for treason after leading an army against the government in the early seventeenth century; Lettice Knollys, banished from the court of Elizabeth I after marrying the wrong man; and Cecilia Nina Bowes?Lyon, the grandmother of and godmother to Elizabeth II, who married Claude Bowes-Lyon and played a significant role in the convalescence of soldiers during the First World War.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword by Dr Owen Emmerson
- Boleyn Family Tree
- Introduction: The Early Boleyns
- 1 Queen Anne and Second Viscount of Rochford, George Boleyn
- 2 Mary Boleyn, Lady Carey and Stafford
- 3 Katherine Carey, Lady Knollys
- 4 Lettice Knollys, Countess of Essex and Leicester
- 5 Robert Devereux, Second Earl of Essex
- 6 Frances Seymour, Duchess of Somerset, and Lady Jane Boyle
- 7 Charles Boyle, Second Earl of Burlington and Richard Boyle, Third Earl of Burlington
- 8 Charlotte Cavendish, Marchioness of Hartington, and her daughter Dorothy, Duchess of Portland
- 9 Lord William Charles Augustus Cavendish Bentinck and The Reverend Charles Cavendish Bentinck
- 10 Cecilia Bowes-Lyon, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne, and Lady Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon, The Queen Mother
- Epilogue: Queen Elizabeth II
- Notes