Mary Boleyn


Mary Boleyn had spent some time at the French court, which was far more licentious than Henry’s, in the train of Henry's sister, the Duchess of Suffolk and had succumbed early on the temptation there, becoming so easy with her favours that the Papal nuncio called her..... "a very great and infamous whore".
King Francis himself boasted of having "ridden" her, and fondly referred to her as "my hackney".
This must have been the reason why her father removed her from de French court and brought her back to England. It seems likely that her affair with Henry began around 1519 - 1520 and was still continuing in 1523, when Henry named one of his ships Mary Boleyn. The relationship seems to have ended in 1525, or there abouts

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