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Behind the scenes of The Boleyns: A Scandalous Family

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The Relationship Between Anne and William Carey

Mary is a gift to the novelist and a nightmare to the historian, because we have so little of her. We have one letter in her own words, and it's a glorious letter. But in terms of the relationship between henry and her,We have so little evidence to back it up. Is quite extraordinary, actually. So i think from that, we can extrapolate that they did have sex. But how much of a relationship there was is really open to interpretation. And this is where the historian has to stop, where the novelist can run wild. There were grants that are gifted to william carey, her husband, but they are that incongruent with other grants

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