Hey friends, welcome to the Renaissance English History podcast.

This is the weekly highlight reel of videos that I have put out on YouTube.

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And then what I've started doing is weekly highlight reels of some of the videos that have

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and search for Heather. And there I am. So let's get right into it. We are going to talk about

how Anne Boleyn's family, her mother, her father, reacted to her arrest and her downfall.

And this was something that somebody left a comment in one of my videos recently asking,

like, what was her mother doing? Because we don't really hear that much about it. All right, on the 2nd of May 1536, Anne Boleyn was arrested at Greenwich and was taken

by barge along the Tens to the Tower of London. She would never leave it. As the king's men moved swiftly

to accuse her of adultery, incest, and treason. The court was buzzing with fear and whispers.

Her brother George was arrested that same day.

Her father, Thomas Boulin, kept his head down.

But what about her mother?

While all of the spotlight was blazing on Anne's downfall, Elizabeth Howard Boulin

remained almost entirely in the shadows, silent, invisible,

and to this day still a mystery.

Elizabeth Howard came from one of the most powerful families in England.

She was the daughter of Thomas Howard, the second Duke of Norfolk,

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