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Representations of mistresses during Anne Boleyn
Mistress Shelton; two sisters, one who might have been the King’s mistress?
A very handsome young lady - the first threat to Queen Anne Boleyn?
Debunking myths and theories about Henry VIII's mistresses during his first marriage
Mary Boleyn – victim of abuse from her manipulative, power-hungry male relatives?
Representation - the mistresses during Henry VIII’s marriage to Catherine of Aragon
A laundress lucky enough to sleep with the King - Joanna Joanna ‘Joan’ Dingley (Dobson)
Mary Berkeley; mother to two of the King’s illegitimate sons?
The scandalous Boleyn sisters; Mary (the girl beneath two Kings) and Anne (the future Queen)
Elizabeth Amadas; noble lady turned social disgrace?
Henry VIII's alleged peasant mistress; Agnes Blewitt
Another alleged mistress of Henry VIII; Jane Pollard whose son claimed to be the King's bastard
Nameless Mistress Parker; one of Henry’s mystery lovers?
Elizabeth Carew; the wife of a dear friend turned royal mistress?
Childhood tutor turned mistress - Jane Poppincourt; a scandalous woman?
Bessie Blount; the mistress who bore the King a son
Étiennette de la Baume; one of Henry's many war-time affairs?
Anne Stafford; Henry's first mistress?