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11:30 pm
November 18, 2010
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I’ve just finished Between Two Queens , part of The Secrets of the Tudor Court series by Kate Emerson.
Anne is a newly arrived Maid of Honour to Jane Seymour just before the birth of Edward. Henry appeared to be very fond of her giving Anne a horse and saddle following Jane’s death as well as allowing her to stop at the court as one of the mais in a reduce queen’s household while searching for a new wife.
Following the Kathryn Howard debarcle, Anne was one of 3 ladies singled out for attention at one of Henry’s infamous banquets. Anne then joined Lady Mary’s household staying there until her marriage at 33 yrs and shortly before the marriage of Queen Mary and Prince Phillip.
The author gives Anne and Henry a single act of love, but was Anne really one of Henry’s mistressses or was she just some-one Henry liked and admired but wasn’t sexually intereasted in?
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6:26 am
January 3, 2012
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Anyanka, I’ve found this about Anne Bassett I hope it helps..
Anne Bassett was the third daughter of Sir John Bassett (1462-January 21,1528) and his second wife, Honor Grenville (c.1494-April 1566). Her stepfather, Arthur Plantagenet, Viscount Lisle, was Lord Deputy of Calais and Anne was sent to a French family to be educated. In 1537 she obtained a post at court as one of Queen Jane Seymour’s six maids of honor, having been told in 1536 that, at fifteen, she was too young for the post. At the queen’s death, she was placed in the household of her cousin, Mary Arundell, countess of Sussex, to await the king’s next marriage. Later she resided with Peter Mewtas and his wife (Jane Asteley) and then with a distant cousin, Anthony Denny, and his wife (Joan Champernowne). The King took a particular interest in her, at one point giving her a gift of a horse and saddle. Upon his marriage to Anne of Cleves, Anne Bassett resumed her position as a maid of honor and she also held this post under Catherine Howard. After that Queen’s disgrace, Anne was particularly provided for because at the time her stepfather, mother, and two sisters were being held in connection with a treasonous plot to turn Calais over to England’s enemies. This does not seem to have affected the King’s feelings for Anne. At a banquet held a short time later, she was one of three ladies to whom he paid particular attention and there was speculation that Anne Bassett might be wife number six.
When King Henry chose Katherine Parr instead, Anne resumed her role as maid of honor. She left court during the reign of Edward VI with an annuity of forty marks for her service to Katherine Parr but returned as a lady of the privy chamber in 1553 when Mary Tudor took the throne. On June 11, 1554, Anne married Walter Hungerford of Farleigh (c.1526-1596) in the Queen’s chapel at Richmond. The Queen granted Anne a number of Hungerford properties lost when Walter’s father was attainted in 1540. Walter was knighted later that year. They had two sons who died young. Biography: Anne’s story is told and some of her correspondence reprinted in M. St. Clare Byrne’s The Lisle Letters.
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