Anne of Cleves – Property owner
Henry was grateful for Anne’s quick, quiet acceptance of divorce. As part of their settlement, he gave her lots of real estate, and a guaranteed income of £4,000 a year. Her property holdings included Bletchingly Manor, Richmond Manor, and Bisham, former property of the recently executed Margaret, Countess of Salisbury.
Most notably, and for Henry to get one more dig at the Boleyns, she was granted their ancestral home, Hever Castle. She wasn’t known to spend a good deal of time at Hever, but there is at least one letter by Anne to Mary Tudor in 1554 signed, “from my poore house of Hever.”
