Comments | fashion_piranha: Review: Elizabeth's Women by Tracy Borman

fashion_piranha

Review: Elizabeth's Women by Tracy Borman

Aug 20, 2011 09:19

Elizabeth’s Women: Friends, Rivals and Foes Who Shaped the Virgin Queen

by Tracy Borman

( Read more... )

2010, london, tudors, history, r2011, catherine howard, henry viii, anne boleyn, 16th century, amazon vine, renaissance, biography, arc, elizabeth i, non-fiction, ***1/2, royalty, queens, england

Comments 2

melsmarsh August 20 2011, 17:42:45 UTC

The suspected son of George Boleyn is also named George Boleyn. The other suspicion is that this person could have been a distant cousin. No one really knows. Homosexual behaviour back then was not uncommon.

fashion_piranha August 20 2011, 17:53:28 UTC

True on both counts, and that's the frustrating thing: in the book, she didn't say when something wasn't known for sure - she'd just mention it like it was a fact everyone agreed on.

Apparently, there are two potential sons - in addition to George Boleyn, Dean of Lichfield (the one mentioned in Elizabeth's Women) there's also a "Thomas Bullen" mentioned on a tombstone at Clonony Castle (http://www.thestandingstone.ie/2009/10/clonony-castle-co-offaly.html) that claims to be a son of George.