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Friends of Anne's
March 15, 2015
2:46 am
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KayKay
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I’m sorry if there is already a specific thread for this but I was wondering if Anne had any true friends. Most specifically women friends? As a young woman myself I think it is very important to have a group a friends that surround you and support you. I’ve always read that Anne had a lot of supporters and of course lots of enemies but I’m not sure I’ve read anywhere of any close friends she had. I know she was a queen so it must have been very difficult for her to trust a lot of people but it would be nice to think she had a least one person she could really count on. She must have felt so a lone and scared in the tower. Does anyone know of anyone specific that she was close too and could be counted as a friend.

"She who has been the Queen of England on earth will today become a Queen in Heaven."- Archbishop Thomas Cranmer

March 16, 2015
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I suppose that as freinds go, the closest to her was perhaps Mary, I also think that despite how Wolf Hall has portrayed Jane.B, that in real they were perhaps fairly close too. Jane B. alledgely tackled one of Lard Arse’s floosies and told her to back off, and she did it so well that the floosie left court.
I do feel though, that Anne is one of those very rare woman, who prefers male freinds to female freinds, as they intrested her interlect more.
The fluffy bunnie’s and babies talk of woman perhaps irritated her too, Anne was not one who enjoyed the whispered hole in the corner gossip, if someone had something to say good or bad, she would sooner them say it to her face then behind her back.
When she was first in the tower, she did ramble a bit in fear, but I think anyone would in that situation. Mrs Kingston, was ordered to report everything sshe said and did, and I’ve not doubt that there would have been a little added on, when Cromwell got Kingston’s report.
The one thing that sticks in my mind is that Anne said something like “This will kill my mother” and in a way I think she was right, as I do believe Anne was very close to her mother.

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March 16, 2015
2:58 pm
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Sharon
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She was also close to Mary Howard, and Margaret Wyatt Lee. Unfortunately, we know more about the people who hated Anne more than we know about the people who loved her.

March 17, 2015
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I’d like to add her cousin Margaret(Madge) Shelton..

And also Lady Bridget Wingfield. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L….._Wingfield

It’s possible there are many other women who knew and/or attended Anne who bonded with her but whose identities are lost to time.

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March 17, 2015
3:48 pm
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Sharon
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…And Anne Gainsford was considered a friend.

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