Hever Castle: What if Anne Boleyn is not Anne Boleyn?

thusitakemyleaveoftheworld:

I’ve just read a post in a Brazilian Anne Boleyn’s fansite, which compares the most famous Anne Boleyn’s portrait and the portrait of Mary Tudor, Princess of England, Queen of England and Duchess of Suffolk, with Charles Brandon, her second husband, Duke of Suffolk.

The right portrait, known to be Anne Boleyn, is a copy made in the 16th century, based on a original image supposedly made between 1533-1536. On the other hand, the left portrait, Mary Tudor, is a portrait by her 20 years old, in 1516.

According to “Boullan”:

• The color of the eyes, the format of the faces, the long neck, the nose and mouth are similar in both portraits. Mary was five years older than Anne (if we suppose she was born in 1501), and, in 1533, Mary would be 37 and Anne, 32.
• If it is Mary Tudor on both portraits, the B wouldn’t mean Boleyn, but Brandon. We could even risk this is a posthumous portrait of Mary, since she died in 23rd June 1533. Maybe her husband, Charles, would like to see in her neck the “B” of Brandon as a symbol of her love for him.
• The appearance of the woman identified as Anne Boleyn in the picture does not match with the descriptions we have by, for an example, the venetian ambassador: he said her eyes were “black and pretty”, and her mouth was “large”. It was also said that her hair was thick, shiny and very dark.

Link to the post: http://boullan.wordpress.com/2011/11/21/o-enigma-de-b/

What do you think?

Posted on December 2nd at 10:01 PM
Tagged as: elizabethan ~ tudor ~ anne boleyn ~ boleyn ~ hever ~ hever castle ~ england ~ portrait ~ history ~
Reblogged from: hoop-skirts-and-corsets
Originally posted by: dieu-etmondroit

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   I cannot say if the famous portrait of Anne Boleyn is actually, in fact, Mary Tudor (Brandon), although there are some...

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   you’re telling me I have lived a lie my whole life, what is this sorcery where is my queeeeeeen’s face? OMG HELP ME

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    I’ve always found things like this a little fascinating. Is there no other known painting of Anne Boleyn?

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33. roughkiss answered: OooOooOh that is a strong case! How fascinating!
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    Now see…this is the sort of thing I’m -fascinated- by.

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38. konfetti answered: they do look incredibly alike!
39. theheroichydrangea answered: It could be the portraits just look similar- there is a portrait of Mary Tudor (bloody Mary) and Elizabeth that look almost identical.
40. british-supertramp answered: mary tudor was only married once… so no
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    First of all I think this is crap. Yes, the two portraits have a striking resemblance, but that means almost nothing...

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