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Ashbug
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Ashbug asked in Arts & HumanitiesHistory · 1 decade ago

Could Anne Boleyn's stillborn son have been conceived with her brother George?

I am reading The Other Boleyn Girl and I am wondering whether or not her stillborn son was also George's

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  • 1 decade ago
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    We'll never know, but its extremely unlikely. Anne was ambitious and smart enough to know that the risk wasn't worth taking. It was also a mortal sin and she was a good Christian even if she wasn't Catholic any more.

    You also have to consider that a child of incest (first generation incest) would probably be fairly healthy. It's when you cross the lines again and again that recessives come out. Such a child would have had a better chance of survival than a child from a father who had syphilis like Henry did.

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    No, Anne Boleyn's pregnancy with Elizabeth occasioned her wedding. A subsequent pregnancy, in which Boleyn miscarried a male child, however, most probably spelled her ultimate fate.

  • 1 decade ago

    Anne Boleyn's stillborn son miscarried prior to birth, he was not the son

    of her brother George, but that of Henry the 8th. George's wife who was extremely jealous of Anne spread the rumour's that they had had

    sex. It was untrue, though Anne had wanted him to get her pregnant

    because of the miscarriage, George could not go through with it.

    Both George and Anne were beheaded for treason.

  • 1 decade ago

    First of all, understand that Philippa Gregory's books are nothing more than soft porn with famous names. They're pathetic, incorrect, and an insult to the people they portray.

    Anne Boleyn didn't commit incest with her brother. She wasn't a witch, and she didn't commit adultery. Her downfall was carefully orchastrated by Thomas Cromwell after she miscarried a male child.

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  • 1 decade ago

    Never really thought about it, but of course. That would explain the stillborn. What a way to open up a new way of looking at the book.

  • 1 decade ago

    .Henry V111 was a great english king but pretty ruthless when he wanted a new queen.He could say and do what he wanted.Married six times.lnterestingly his 5th wife Catherine Howard was also beheaded for adultery.This time her crime was BEFORE he married her.As l say he could say and do as he pleased.With the same result."Off with her head"

  • 1 decade ago

    She didn't really have sex with her brother. That was a lie and a rumor spread by that other snobby girl (I forget her name) and she later confessed that it was all a lie.

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