By 1525 Henry was infatuated with his mistress Anne Boleyn and dissatisfied that his marriage to Catherine had produced no surviving sons, leaving their daughter, the future Mary I of England, as heiress presumptive at a time when there was no established precedent for a woman on the throne.

" The historian Jasper Ridley, author of several biographies including one on Henry VIII and another on Mary Tudor, goes much further in his dual biography of More and Cardinal Wolsey, The Statesman and the Fanatic, describing More as " a particularly nasty sadomasochistic pervert ," a line of thinking followed by the late Joanna Denny in her 2004 biography of Anne Boleyn.

* July 19 – Mary Boleyn, mistress of Kings Francis I of France and Henry VIII of England ( b. 1500 )

* Mary Boleyn ( 1499 – 1543 ): mistress of King Henry VIII of England and ( allegedly ) lover of King Francis I of France

Anne's sister Mary Boleyn

Author Gareth Russell wrote a summary of the evidence and relates that Jane Dormer, Duchess of Feria, wrote her memoirs shortly before her death in 1612 ; in it the former lady in waiting and confident to Queen Mary I of England wrote of Anne Boleyn " She was convicted and condemned and was not yet twenty-nine years of age.

She married William Carey, a minor noble, in February 1520, at Greenwich, with Henry VIII in attendance: soon after, Mary Boleyn became the English King's mistress.

He is currently enjoying a discreet affair with Mary Boleyn, a daughter of Sir Thomas Boleyn who is one of his courtiers ; but the King is bored with her too.

* Valerie Gearon as Mary Boleyn

His maternal great-grandmother Mary Boleyn was a sister of Anne Boleyn, mother of Queen Elizabeth I, making him a first-cousin-twice-removed of the Queen.

Carey's brother William was the husband of Mary Boleyn, Anne Boleyn's elder sister.

* Anne Shelton ( courtier ), aunt of Anne Boleyn and mother of Henry VIII's mistress, Mary Shelton ; wife of the above

* Mary Boleyn ( c. 1499 – 19 July 1543 ); Lady Mary Carey ( 1520 – 1528 ); Lady Stafford ( 1534 – 1543 )

His eldest daughter Queen Mary lived there between 1533 and 1536, when she was sent to wait on the then Princess Elizabeth, as punishment for refusing to recognise Henry's marriage to Anne Boleyn and his religious reforms.

* Mary Stafford, née Mary Boleyn, sister of Anne Boleyn and mistress of Henry VIII, to whom she is alleged to have borne two children

It is presumed that their first two children Mary and George were born at Blickling Hall, along with several other Boleyn infants who did not live long.

Henry realised with the passing years that the ageing Catherine was unlikely to produce a son and heir, and he was having notorious affairs with sisters Mary Boleyn and Anne Boleyn.

Her parents, pious Roman Catholics, christened her Mary Anne Elizabeth Magdalene Steichen.

He was the seventh of nine children of Thomas Vere Wallace and Mary Anne Greenell.

Through him would come many other priests and prophets, including Anne, Elizabeth, Mary, John the Baptist and Jesus.

Anne had four pupils: Lydia, age 15, Elizabeth, age 13, Mary, age 12, and Edmund, age 8.

Anne retained close ties to Elizabeth and Mary Robinson, exchanging letters even after Branwell's disgrace.

The Bill of Rights also stated that the line of succession would go through their descendants, then through Mary's sister Princess Anne, and her descendants, and then to the issue of William III by a later marriage ( if he were to marry again after the death of Mary II ).

* Mellor, Anne K. " Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman and the women writers of her day ".

In 1839 he settled his private life by marrying Mary Anne Lewis, the rich widow of Wyndham Lewis, Disraeli's erstwhile colleague at Maidstone.

He and Mary Anne alternated between Hughenden and several homes in London for the remainder of their marriage.

She largely retired from acting after The Doris Day Show, but did complete two television specials, The Doris Mary Anne Kappelhoff Special ( 1971 ) and Doris Day to Day ( 1975 ).

* Barothy, Mary Anne.

Her older half-sister, Mary, had lost her position as a legitimate heir when Henry annulled his marriage to Mary's mother, Catherine of Aragon, in order to marry Anne and sire a male heir to ensure the Tudor succession.

Mary Anne ( alternatively Mary Ann or Marian ) Evans ( 22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880 ), better known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, journalist and translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era.

Mary Anne Evans was the third child of Robert Evans ( 1773 – 1849 ) and Christiana Evans ( née Pearson ) ( 1788 – 1836 ), the daughter of a local farmer.

Robert Evans, of Welsh ancestry, was the manager of the Arbury Hall Estate for the Newdigate family in Warwickshire, and Mary Anne was born on the estate at South Farm.

On 16 May 1880 Eliot courted controversy once more by marrying a man twenty years younger than herself, and again changing her name, this time to Mary Anne Cross.

The religious elements in her fiction also owe much to her upbringing, with the experiences of Maggie Tulliver from The Mill on the Floss sharing many similarities with the young Mary Anne Evans's own development.

Grandchildren: Nina Edgerton, Eric Edgerton, Sylvia Edgerton, Janice Dixon, William Dixon, Mary Anne Dixon and Ellen Dixon.

The Immaculate Conception should not be confused with the perpetual virginity of Mary or the virgin birth of Jesus ; it refers to the conception of Mary by her mother, Saint Anne.

The Catholic Church teaches that Mary was not the product of a virginal conception herself and was the daughter of a human father and mother, traditionally known by the names of Saint Joachim and Saint Anne.

* Mary Anne Wedgwood ( 1778 – 86 ) ( died as a child )

Samuel Galton, Jr., unusual as a Quaker who was also a gun-manufacturer, appears in the letters of other Lunar members as attending meetings from July 1781, and his daughter Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck was to provide one of the few first-hand accounts of the Lunar Society's activities.

Historians dispute King Henry VIII's paternity of one or both of Mary Boleyn's children born during this marriage.

* Historians dispute King Henry VIII's paternity of one or both of Mary Boleyn's children.

Mary, Anne Boleyn's first cousin, had been the mistress of Henry VIII between February and August 1535.

In October 1533, the daughter of Queen Katherine of Aragon, Mary, who had been staying at Beaulieu for some time, was evicted as the palace had recently been granted to George Boleyn ( Anne Boleyn's brother ).

It has long been rumoured that one or both of Mary Boleyn's children were fathered by Henry and not Carey.

It has long been rumored that one or both of Mary Boleyn's children were fathered by Henry VIII.

If Catherine was indeed born in June 1524, then this would point to her being fathered by Henry VIII since Mary Boleyn's affair with him appears to have begun around 1522 and ended in the early summer of 1525, which also makes Henry Carey to have been conceived just before the end of the affair, not to mention he received the name Henry.