How Prince William and Prince Harry descend from Mary Boleyn. I love genealogy. This is crazy one of the biggest world conspiracies is directly related to me by blood! He is a distant cousin.I found I too am a descendant of Mary Boleyn and Catherine Carey. Henry Carey was called “the Kynge’s son” in a contemporary (1535) source. Henry VIII did not acknowledge either her or her younger brother, Henry, as his children, but then he had no need – Catherine was just a girl (and he had one of those already), he already had an illegitimate son that he had recognised (Henry Fitzroy) and Mary was married to William Carey, a gentleman of the Privy Chamber, and so the child could be passed off as his. Red hair is a recessive gene. 3. Henry VII I know I’m not related to Anne Boleyn, not unless some relative came from Germany with King George the First, and married into an english family.I’d love to go to Germany and see the family history book my cousins in Nuremberg keep.Maybe some day I’ll get there, just like I’d love to see all the wonderful places in England that Henry and his wives lived at and the beautiful country side.Unless if William Carey had red hair… I’d say Elizabeth Knollys inherited that red hair in her portrait from a certain someone we all love and hate. How likely is that and if so what does it do to this blood line?It does nothing to the bloodline, beyond ruling out the Carey ancestors, therefore, eliminating Carey as the surname.Had it been Henry’s child, it would have been conceived and born out of wedlock, therefore illegitimate and ineligible for the throne.I hope that Catherine Carey is NOT the child of Henry VIII (and I believe that no one knows when Henry had his affair with Mary Boleyn). He refers numerous times to Anne as “the Witch”. This has got to a y-haplogroup test only, right, as 15 generations is too far back for any "regular" DNA test to give meaningful insights? But as someone else mentioned, both parents must carry the recessive gene. If Henry wanted to wipe them out, he could have done so. He was never without pain. non-redhaired women. For example a barrel maker is called a cooper and families in that trade gained the name Cooper. The obvious consequences were that the children, all of the children, of Edward iv, were declared illegitimate, because it was decided that Edward and his wife knew they were not lawfully married and so good faith did not apply. The Anne of Cleves marriage is interesting, but the fact she served Katherine Howard is the fact they were cousins. Historically it is accepted but at the time it broke the law and Owen was jailed. Isaac, that's about the size of the situation and I doubt there will ever be any actual proof. Her mind was unsteady and her family warned her about being foolish. Because Anne had accused Charles Brandon of incest with his daughter before she became Queen. The Tudor dynasty ended with Elizabeth I in 1603 because she died childless, but Henry VIII had two sisters, Margaret and Mary, and their bloodlines continued. He married their mother, Katherine Le Rote and the Pope later declared them legitimate. Ann Boleyn was put to death on the sole testimony of henry carey son of HVIII and mary carey nee Boleyn aged 9 years.I too am descended from Ann Knollys and Thomas West and Anne Knollys via their daughter Penelope and Herbert John Pelham who were my 10th Great Grandparents. If it didn’t come directly from a Tudor or Stuart King, then there is a Countess or Duchess with a secret or two. It has been dismissed by most people but two historians believe it to be true. You might be called Richard of Reesdale or Christine of Fulham or Anne of Shenton or something.
You can check it out on the website below. This was several years after Lupton’s book was published.William Davenport is one of my wife’s ancestors and I have estabished his probable ancestry and virtually conclusively disproved the connection with Henry of Worfield.There is no proof of that and it is highly unlikely that she could have kept that secret from her enemies who were just waiting for her to do something wrong so that they could depose her.descent from Ann Knollys and Thomas West baron de la warre. John of Gaunt was the father of four Beaufort sons, plus one daughter Joan, the eldest of whom Henry Tudor descended from. What I don’t understand, and maybe you can give some insight Claire, is why hasn’t anyone gotten into Henry VIII’s tomb and taken a DNA sample to do testing on yet? Very interesting information.It makes perfect sense if, in fact, she was murderous Henry’s daughter, and if he felt even some minor guilt at having murdered Anne, or perhaps some twisted nostalgic remembrance of Mary, or a combination thereof.That guy was focused on leaving progeny and proving his manhood. The article says of Elizabeth:-“Elizabeth Knollys had important connections: not only was she a cousin of the Queen, but also a relation of Anne Boleyn, second wife of King Henry VIII. Your comment does bring up an interesting fact, Why would Henry the king want any of the Boleyn family around court? Names are almost as interesting as the people who bare them, they tell us of our origins, our history, genes and even our status in that history. We have to remember he was a man sensitive to his heirs and the succesion-if he had a son he would have recognized him like FitzRoy.Consider what he did to Katherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn because they had no sons (in addition to my previous comment)I have a copy of a biography of Henry VIII by Margaret George which contains letters from his Court Fool Will Somers to Catherine Knollys. It could have lasted for as long as 4 or 5 years, but likewise it could have been a quick fling. In her Tudor ruff, she rather resembled an early Kate Middleton, and soon became Sir Thomas Leighton’s most valuable conquest, on or off the battlefield.”Yes, she was a relative of the Queen and of Anne Boleyn because she was the granddaughter of Mary Boleyn, Henry VIII’s famous mistress and the sister of Anne Boleyn. Elizabeth I unofficially treated Catherine as her more like her full cousin by blood, than her second cousin by marriage (I think that is the right relationship?).