30 Unforeseen Facts About Anne Boleyn

30 Unforeseen Facts About Anne Boleyn

Trista - February 11, 2019

30 Unforeseen Facts About Anne Boleyn
James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormond by William Wissing. Wikimedia Commons.

27. She Was Supposed to Marry a Cousin

One of Anne’s distant cousins on the Butler side, James Butler, was an Irish earl. In order to keep the noble title in the family, her parents arranged for them to get married. At some point, the marriage negotiations ran afoul, and both Anne and James found themselves at the royal court of King Henry the Eighth.

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