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Anne Boleyn. Her Life as told by Lancelot de Carle's 1536 Letter.
In 1536, two weeks after the execution of Anne Boleyn, her brother George and four others, Lancelot du Carle, wrote an extraordinary letter that described Anne's life, and her trial and execution, to which he was a witness. This book presents a new translation of that letter, with additional material from other contemporary sources such as Letters, Hall's and Wriothesley's Chronicles, the pamphlets of Wynkyn the Worde, the Memorial of George Constantyne, the Portuguese Letter and the Baga de Secrets, all of which are provided in Appendices.
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Paternal Family Tree: Mecklenburg
Before 1680 [her future husband] Frederick I King Prussia (age 22) and Elisabeth Henriëtte Hesse-Kassel (age 18) were married. She the daughter of Wilhelm "The Just" VI Hesse-Kassel and Hedwig Sophia Hohenzollern (age 56). He the son of Frederick William "Great Elector" Hohenzollern Elector Brandenburg (age 59) and Luise Henriette Orange Nassau. They were first cousins.
Before 1685 [her future husband] Frederick I King Prussia (age 27) and Sophia Charlotte Hanover Queen Consort Prussia (age 16) were married. She the daughter of Ernest Augustus Hanover Elector Brunswick-Lüneburg (age 55) and Electress Sophia Palatinate Simmern (age 54). He the son of Frederick William "Great Elector" Hohenzollern Elector Brandenburg (age 64) and Luise Henriette Orange Nassau. They were second cousins. She a great granddaughter of King James I of England and Ireland and VI of Scotland.
On 6th May 1685 Sophia Louise Mecklenburg-Schwerin was born to [her father] Frederick I Duke of Mecklenburg Grabow (age 47).
On 28th April 1688 [her father] Frederick I Duke of Mecklenburg Grabow (age 50) died.
In 1690 [her future husband] Frederick I King Prussia (age 32) was appointed 499th Knight of the Garter by King William III of England, Scotland and Ireland (age 39) and Mary Stewart II Queen England Scotland and Ireland (age 27).
On 21st June 1692 [her brother] Frederick William I Duke Mecklenburg-Schwerin (age 17) succeeded I Duke Mecklenburg Schwerin.
On 18th January 1701 [her future husband] Frederick I King Prussia (age 43) was created I King Prussia. Sophia Charlotte Hanover Queen Consort Prussia (age 32) by marriage Queen Consort Prussia.
Jean de Waurin's Chronicle of England Volume 6 Books 3-6: The Wars of the Roses
Jean de Waurin was a French Chronicler, from the Artois region, who was born around 1400, and died around 1474. Waurin’s Chronicle of England, Volume 6, covering the period 1450 to 1471, from which we have selected and translated Chapters relating to the Wars of the Roses, provides a vivid, original, contemporary description of key events some of which he witnessed first-hand, some of which he was told by the key people involved with whom Waurin had a personal relationship.
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On 2nd January 1704 [her brother] Frederick William I Duke Mecklenburg-Schwerin (age 28) and [her sister-in-law] Sophie Charlotte Hesse-Kassel Duchess Mecklenburg-Schwerin (age 25) were married. She by marriage Duchess Mecklenburg Schwerin. She the daughter of Charles I Landgrave Hesse-Kassel (age 49) and Maria Amalia of Courland Landgravine Hesse-Kassel (age 50). They were fourth cousins.
In 1708 Frederick I King Prussia (age 50) and Sophia Louise Mecklenburg-Schwerin (age 22) were married. She by marriage Queen Consort Prussia. The difference in their ages was 27 years. He the son of Frederick William "Great Elector" Hohenzollern Elector Brandenburg and Luise Henriette Orange Nassau. They were fourth cousins.
On 25th February 1713 [her husband] Frederick I King Prussia (age 55) died. His son [her step-son] Frederick (age 24) succeeded I King Prussia. Sophia Dorothea Hanover Queen Consort Prussia (age 25) by marriage Queen Consort Prussia.
On 31st July 1713 [her brother] Frederick William I Duke Mecklenburg-Schwerin (age 38) died.
On 29th July 1735 Sophia Louise Mecklenburg-Schwerin (age 50) died.
Kings Wessex: Great x 19 Grand Daughter of King Edmund "Ironside" I of England
Kings Godwinson: Great x 18 Grand Daughter of King Harold II of England
Kings England: Great x 14 Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Kings Scotland: Great x 18 Grand Daughter of King Duncan I of Scotland
Kings Franks: Great x 15 Grand Daughter of Louis VII King of the Franks
Kings France: Great x 19 Grand Daughter of Robert "Pious" II King of the Franks
Kings Duke Aquitaine: Great x 23 Grand Daughter of Ranulf I Duke Aquitaine
Great x 4 Grandfather: Magnus II Duke of Mecklenburg
Great x 3 Grandfather: Albrecht VII Duke Mecklenburg
Great x 2 Grandfather: Duke John Albert I of Mecklenburg-Schwerin 11 x Great Grand Son of
Great x 4 Grandfather: Joachim "Nestor" Hohenzollern Elector Brandenburg 9 x Great Grand Son of
Great x 3 Grandmother: Anna Hohenzollern Duchess Mecklenburg 10 x Great Grand Daughter of
Great x 1 Grandfather: Duke John VII of Mecklenburg-Schwerin 11 x Great Grand Son of
Great x 4 Grandfather: Frederick Hohenzollern I Margrave Brandenburg-Ansbach
Great x 3 Grandfather: Albert "The Elder" Hohenzollern I Duke Prussia 9 x Great Grand Son of
Great x 4 Grandmother: Sophia Jagiellon Margravine of Brandenburg-Ansbach 8 x Great Grand Daughter of
Great x 2 Grandmother: Anna Sophia Hohenzollern 10 x Great Grand Daughter of
Great x 4 Grandfather: King Frederick I of Denmark 
Great x 3 Grandmother: Dorothea Oldenburg 10 x Great Grand Daughter of
Great x 4 Grandmother: Anna of Brandenburg 9 x Great Grand Daughter of
GrandFather: Duke Adolphus Frederick I of Mecklenburg-Schwerin 12 x Great Grand Son of
Great x 4 Grandfather: Christian I King of Denmark
Great x 3 Grandfather: King Frederick I of Denmark
Great x 4 Grandmother: Dorothea of Brandenburg
Great x 2 Grandfather: Duke Adolph Oldenburg of Holstein-Gotorp
Great x 4 Grandfather: Bogislaw X Duke of Pomerania
Great x 3 Grandmother: Sophie of Pomerania Queen Consort of Denmark and Sweden
Great x 1 Grandmother: Sophia Oldenburg 11 x Great Grand Daughter of
Great x 4 Grandfather: William II Landgrave of Hesse 9 x Great Grand Son of
Great x 3 Grandfather: Landgrave Philip I of Hesse 10 x Great Grand Son of
Great x 2 Grandmother: Christine Hesse 10 x Great Grand Daughter of
Great x 4 Grandfather: George Duke of Saxony 9 x Great Grand Son of
Great x 3 Grandmother: Christine of Saxony 9 x Great Grand Daughter of
Great x 4 Grandmother: Barbara Jagiellon 8 x Great Grand Daughter of
Father: Frederick I Duke of Mecklenburg Grabow 13 x Great Grand Son of
Great x 4 Grandfather: Henry I Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg 9 x Great Grand Son of
Great x 3 Grandfather: Ernest I Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg 10 x Great Grand Son of
Great x 2 Grandfather: Henry Duke of Brunswick-Dannenberg 11 x Great Grand Son of
Great x 4 Grandfather: Henry V Duke of Mecklenburg
Great x 3 Grandmother: Sophie of Mecklenburg
Great x 1 Grandfather: Julius Ernst Duke of Brunswick-Dannenberg 12 x Great Grand Son of
GrandMother: Maria Katharina 13 x Great Grand Daughter of
Sophia Louise Mecklenburg-Schwerin Queen Consort Prussia 14 x Great Grand Daughter of