Sexual intercourse was not commonly practised when the woman was pregnant. 4 So, there is evidence that Anne was visibly pregnant at this time, a time when she was allegedly seducing and sleeping with Mark Smeaton and Sir Francis Weston. April, May and June 1534 – A letter from George Taylor to Lady Lisle dated 27th April 1534 says that “The Queen hath a goodly belly, praying our Lord to send us a prince” 3 and in July, Anne’s brother, Lord Rochford, was sent on a diplomatic mission to France to ask for the postponement of a meeting between Henry VIII and Francis I because of Anne’s condition: “being so far gone with child she could not cross the sea with the King”.3rd and 8th December 1533 – Records show that the royal court was at Greenwich on 8th December, so Anne could not have been committing adultery with Sir William Brereton at Hampton Court Palace.Furthermore, at the time she was at Greenwich, not Westminster. On 6th and 12th October 1533, Anne Boleyn would still have been unchurched* after giving birth to her daughter, Elizabeth, the previous month, and so would still have been confined to her chambers.Historian Eric Ives comments that three quarter of the alleged offences can be disproven because Anne Boleyn or the man involved were actually somewhere else, as shown below. 8th January 1536 – Anne plotted the King’s death with Rochford, Norris, Weston and Brereton at Greenwich.22nd and 29th December 1535 – Anne and her brother George Boleyn, Lord Rochford, at Eltham Palace.27th November 1535 – Anne gave gifts to the men at Westminster.

2nd and 5th November 1535 – Anne and her brother George Boleyn,Lord Rochford at Westminster.31st October 1535 – Anne and some of the men plotted the King’s death at Westminster.13th and 19th May 1535 – Anne and Mark Smeaton at Greenwich.26th April 1535 – Anne and Mark Smeaton at Westminster.6th and 20th June 1534 – Anne and Sir Francis Weston at Greenwich.8th and 20th May 1534 – Anne and Sir Francis Weston at Westminster.12th April 1534 – Anne and Mark Smeaton at Westminster (date for Anne procuring Smeaton).3rd and 8th December 1533 – Anne and Sir William Brereton at Hampton Court.16th and 27th November 1533 – Anne and Sir William Brereton at Greenwich.6th and 12th October 1533 – Anne and Sir Henry Norris at Westminster.If we combine the Kent and Middlesex Indictments, we get a clearer picture of the dates of the alleged offences: Following on from the rulings of the Grand Juries of Middlesex and Kent on the 10th and 11th May 1536, I wanted to share with you an extract from my book The Fall of Anne Boleyn: A Countdown about the indictments and Anne Boleyn’s alleged crimes.

The fall of anne boleyn a countdown