How did Anne Boleyn treat Jane Seymour? I’ve read that she wanted Jane out of court but are there any known accounts of her being cruel to and/or confronting Jane?
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Can you please tell me the source that tells of Anne finding Henry and Jane together?? Thank you 😀
Hi Tara,
It’s from George Wyatt’s “The Life of Queen Anne Boleigne” in George Cavendish’s “The Life of Cardinal Wolsey”:-
“I saw this harlot Jane sitting on your knees while my belly was doing its duty!”
and is quoted in Eric Ives’s “The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn” p 304. Ives cites Wyatt in “Wolsey”, ed. Singer, p. 443.
And actually I’d add the Jane Dormer is born in 1538 she so again won’t have this first hand. There is actually no first hand evidence for this, it is rumour and conjecture that’s grown into an excellent but fictional story. That’s not to say it definitely didn’t happen but we certainly cannot say it definitely did.
Bye blows? Does this mean anne & jane got into a fist fight?
Can you please tell me the source that tells of Anne finding Henry and Jane together?? Thank you 😀
Hi Tara,
It’s from George Wyatt’s “The Life of Queen Anne Boleigne” in George Cavendish’s “The Life of Cardinal Wolsey”:-
“I saw this harlot Jane sitting on your knees while my belly was doing its duty!”
and is quoted in Eric Ives’s “The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn” p 304. Ives cites Wyatt in “Wolsey”, ed. Singer, p. 443.
But George Wyatt is born after this event and wouldn’t have seen it first hand. Is his book the only evidence of this?
And actually I’d add the Jane Dormer is born in 1538 she so again won’t have this first hand. There is actually no first hand evidence for this, it is rumour and conjecture that’s grown into an excellent but fictional story. That’s not to say it definitely didn’t happen but we certainly cannot say it definitely did.
Bye blows? Does this mean anne & jane got into a fist fight?