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Joanna Denny Sources
August 13, 2011
3:11 pm
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Elliemarianna
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I was just flicking though Anne Boleyn by Joanna Denny, and saw a few things of interest – 

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“As he lay dying, Henry confessed the many injustices of his reign and allegedly was truly repentant, and among other things, on account of the injury and crime committed against the said Queen (Anne Boleyn).”  Source – D'aubigny, vol 2 p. 491.

“She (Elizabeth) asked Parker to trace the papal dispensation for her parents' marriage (which he did, in 1572). In parliament she restored Anne's legal title as Queen and her own as heir. Her purpose was to vindicate her mother, boasting that she was 'the most English woman of the kingdom'. She even had a ring made which opened to reveal secret portraits of herself and Anne in enamel.” Source – Statutes of the Realm: Mary, 2, iv.i.200-1;1 Eliz.3, 23, iv.i.358-9, 39.

I thought Henry never mentioned Anne ever again, even on his death bed? And I distinctly remember hearing that Elizabeth never publicly mentioned her mother, or restored her as queen? No one else ever intention's this in other books…. But Denny gives sources…

"It is however but Justice, & my Duty to declre that this amiable Woman was entirely innocent of the Crimes with which she was accused, of which her Beauty, her Elegance, & her Sprightliness were sufficient proofs..." Jane Austen.

August 13, 2011
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we discussed Elizabeth's not making herself legitimate here.

It's always bunnies.

August 14, 2011
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I must admit I thought Joanna Denny's book a little too hagiographic. Anne was a human being, not a saint. Talking of saints though, I did love her quotations from St Thomas More's writings about Luther. Marvellous!

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