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- ↑ Warnicke, Retha M. (1991). The rise and fall of Anne Boleyn: family politics at the court of Henry VIII. Cambridge University Press. p. 119. ISBN 978-0-521-40677-2.
- ↑ Grueninger, Natalie (2022). The Final Year of Anne Boleyn. Barnsley: Pen & Sword.
- ↑ Lives of the Queens of England by Agnes Strickland. Retrieved 24 December 2020.
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