Who sends Anne flowers?

Who sends Anne flowers?

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A curious and beautiful tradition persists every 19th May, when a bunch of red roses arrives by taxi at the Tower of London.

Mystery has always surrounded the arrival of the flowers, which have been sent anonymously to the Tower every May 19 since at least 1850.

The bouquet solemnly arrives, is collected by a Yeoman Warder, and placed on the memorial slab for Anne Boleyn.

The exact location of the slab corresponding roughly to where the altar cloth falls to its bottom left, in the chancel area.

No member of the public is normally allowed into this part of the chapel royal outside of services, unless as part of the popular tours of the Yeoman Warders, when the altar area is respectfully roped off.

A high degree of anonymity as to the sender of these flowers has been achieved, although a former Director-General of the Tower of London who was intrigued by the story, managed to trace the roses to a flower supplier in London.

The bunch that is sent every year comes from an “undisclosed firm of trustees”and always is accompanied by a card which reads quite simply, “Queen Anne Boleyn 1536.

The memorial roses are only removed after they have wilted, however, other flowers are also left by private individuals.

Historians, Tower staff and thousands of visitors have been intrigued by the tradition, but until now, nobody has been able to discover who was sending the annual bouquet to the chapel where she is buried.

After years of painstaking research, Maj. Gen. Chris Tyler, former director-general of the Tower, traced the origin of the flowers back to Kent, where relatives of The Boleyn Family, live.

The family are now called Bullen rather than Boleyn, who reluctantly admitted, that the flowers came from them.

Gen. Tyler eventually won the trust of the intensely private Bullens, and a group of family members accepted his invitation to visit the Tower.

There, they got to see where Anne was imprisoned, where she died and the place she was buried.

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https://www.washingtontimes.com/.../20000517-011353-6798r/

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