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30 Unforeseen Facts About Anne Boleyn

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4. We Don’t Really Know Much About Anne

A book titled In The Footsteps of Anne Boleyn by Sarah Morris and Natalie Grueninger. On the Tudor Trail.

For all of Anne’s prominence, we don’t even know what year she was born. Maybe she came into the world in 1501, but she could have been born as late as 1507. She could have been as old as 35 – middle-aged by Medieval standards – when she was executed, which would change much of the narrative about her ill-fated marriage and death.

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