Comments on: Anne Boleyn – Chronology

By: Claire

Claire — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 08:30:52 +0000

Hi Pat,
Catherine Carey married Sir Francis Knollys and she became Chief Lady of the Bedchamber to her cousin Elizabeth I. Her and her husband had 15 children – you can find out about them at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Carey,_Lady_Knollys but Catherine’s daughter Lettice’s second marriage was to Elizabeth I’s favourite, Robert Dudley the Earl of Leicester. Catherine died in 1569.

Henry Carey was knighted in 1558 and was made 1st Baron Hunsdon by Elizabeth I in 1559. Elizabeth also made him Master of the Queen’s Hawks (1560), Knight of the Garter (1561), Captain of the Gentleman Pensioners (1564), Governor of Berwick-upon-Tweed and Lord Warden of the Eastern March (1568), Lieutenant General of Elizabeth’s forces during the Rising of the North, Keeper of Somerset House (1574), Privy Counsellor (1577), Captain-General (1581), Lord Chamberlain of the Household (1585) and then Elizabeth made him Lord Chamberlain Lieutenant, Principal Captain and Governor of the Army in 1588 at Tilbury. He also had various other offices and was a real favourite of the Queen. He died in 1596 and was buried at Westminster Abbey. You can read more about him at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Carey,_1st_Baron_Hunsdon.

Henry Carey was married to Ann Morgan and the couple had 12 children. Their son George became 2nd Baron Hunsdon and their son John became 3rd Baron Hunsdon.

It is said that the following people can all trace their family back to Mary Boleyn: Winston Churchill, John Davison Rockefeller, P. G. Wodehouse, Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (the late Queen Mother), the late Princess of Wales (Diana), Sarah the Duchess of York, Charles Darwin and Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr.

By: Pat

Pat — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 04:49:42 +0000

How can one find out if the children of Anne Boleyn’s sister lived or what became of them? ……..

By: Claire

Claire — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:29:00 +0000

Hi Pom,
I think the deformed foetus story is just a story as there was no mention of it at the time – just another attempt to blacken Anne’s name and paint her as a witch. I know what you mean about having a chill down your spine. The dream that I had that started this website off – a dream about Anne’s execution – really upset me because I felt so powerless to help her and couldn’t believe that an innocent woman was being executed like that. Horrible.

By: Pom

Pom — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:05:53 +0000

I’ve been struggling with the “deformed” fetus issue for awhile now. I suspect that there was a great deal of ignorance regarding the appearance of fetuses throughout pregnancy during this time and, while the appearance of this fetus may have seemed unusual, he was likely very normal for that stage of Queen Anne’s pregnancy.

Not that it mattered to H8 by this time. He became so determined to see the end of her that any falsified information was as good as fact and only fueled his hatred and unforgivable action against Queen Anne.

Every time I think of this sad path of hers it sends chills down my spine and makes my heart ache at the injustice of it.

By: rochie

rochie — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 19:23:10 +0000

Just reading through this simple, blow by blow chronology of Anne’s life, it reminds me of one of those old fashioned hour glasses with the sand. At the start everything seems to move very slowly, interminably long – and then towards the end the sand moves faster, or appears to. All the important events come on apace, closer and closer together, and then suddenly it’s all over so quickly!