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Jane Boleyn - A Queen’s Confidante 1/2 (Minisode)
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Jane Boleyn was sister in law, and confidante, to one of England’s best known Queen Consorts - Anne Boleyn. She saw firsthand the rise and fall of the Boleyn family, and was later accused of participating in their downfall. However the claims that she accused her husband of incest with his sister are unproven, and there is little evidence that she had anything to do with their executions.
Sources/Further Reading:
Fox, Julia: Jane Boleyn, the True Story of the Infamous Lady Rochford
Weir, Alison: The Lady In The Tower - The Fall of Anne Boleyn
Wilkinson, Josephine: Katherine Howard - The Tragic Story of Henry VIIIs 5th Queen
Russell, Gareth: Young and Damned and Fair - The Life and Tragedy of Katherine Howard at the Court of Henry VIII
Smith, Lacey Baldwin: Anne Boleyn, the Queen of Controversy - a Biographical Essay
Borman, Tracy: Jane Boleyn, Lady Rochford: The Most Hated Woman in Tudor England? https://www.hrp.org.uk/blog/jane-boleyn-lady-rochford-the-most-hated-woman-in-tudor-england/
Easton, Henrietta: Does Jane Boleyn Deserve Her Reputation As The Most Hated Woman at the Tudor Court? https://www.discoverbritain.com/history/icons/jane-boleyn/
Ridgeway, Claire: Jane Boleyn - Did She Help Bring Down Anne Boleyn? The Anne Boleyn Files https://www.theanneboleynfiles.com/?s=Jane+Boleyn
Tomlins, Thomas Edlyne and Raithby, John: The statutes at large, of England and of Great Britain : from Magna Carta to the union of the kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland https://archive.org/details/statutesatlarge00raitgoog/page/366/mode/2up
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