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The bedroom of Henry VIII at Hever Castle. Hever Castle (/ ˈ h iː v ər / HEE-vər) is located in the village of Hever, Kent, near Edenbridge, 30 miles (48 km) south-east of London, England. It began as a country house, built in the 13th century. From 1462 to 1539, it was the seat of the Boleyn (originally 'Bullen') family. [1]
Monumental brass in Hever Church in Kent to Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, 1st Earl of Ormond (c. 1477 – 1539), KG, of Hever Castle, father of Queen Anne Boleyn. Dressed in full robes and insignia of a Knight of the Garter. A falcon on his right shoulder (crest of the Bullen family) and a griffin at his feet.
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Viscount Astor, of Hever Castle in the County of Kent, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1917 for the financier and statesman William Waldorf Astor, 1st Baron Astor. He had already been created Baron Astor, of Hever Castle in the County of Kent, in 1916, also in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. [4]
On 21 January 1956, he was created Baron Astor of Hever, of Hever Castle in the County of Kent, [10] taking his seat in the House of Lords on 21 March. [11] He remained chairman of The Times until 1959 when his son Gavin took over, seven years before it was sold to Canadian newspaper tycoon, Roy Thomson.
Thomas Boleyn, Earl of Wiltshire, 1st Earl of Ormond, [1] 1st Viscount Rochford KG [2] KB (c. 1477 – 12 March 1539), of Hever Castle in Kent, was an English diplomat and politician who was the father of Anne Boleyn, the second wife of King Henry VIII, and was thus the maternal grandfather of Queen Elizabeth I.
Baron Astor of Hever, of Hever Castle in the County of Kent, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. [2] It was created in 1956 for John Jacob Astor, a prominent newspaper proprietor and Conservative politician. He was the fourth child of William Waldorf Astor, 1st Viscount Astor.
In 1903, he acquired the Hever Castle Estate near Edenbridge, Kent, about 30 miles south of London. The estate of over 3,500 acres had at its centre a castle built in 1270 where Anne Boleyn lived as a child. Astor invested a great deal of time and money in restoring the castle, building what is known as the "Tudor Village", and creating a lake ...
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