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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On 6th May 1829 [her father] George Waugh [aged 28] and [her mother] Mary Walker [aged 24] were married.
In 1833 Fanny Waugh was born to [her father] George Waugh [aged 31] and [her mother] Mary Walker [aged 27].
On 6th September 1864 Thomas Woolner [aged 38] and [her half-sister] Alice Gertrude Waugh were married. He had previously proposed to her sister Fanny Waugh [aged 31]. They had two sons and four daughters.
The Diary of George Price Boyce 1865. 6th August 1865. Called on Gabriel Rossetti [aged 37]. He and Fanny1 only there. He was at work upon a drawing of a girl washing her hands, and of her lover; the former painted from Ellen Smith, the latter from Howell.
Note 1. Probably Fanny Waugh [aged 32] who married [her future husband] William Holman Hunt [aged 38] in December 1865.
On 28th December 1865 William Holman Hunt [aged 38] and Fanny Waugh [aged 32] were married at Christ Church Paddington. William Michael Rossetti [aged 36], and her brother and sister George and Emily were witnesses. She, Fanny, would die the following year eight days short of their anniversary. He would, ten years later, marry her younger sister Marion Edith Waugh [aged 18]; an example of Married to Two Siblings.
1866. [her husband] William Holman Hunt [aged 38]. Portrait of his wife Fanny Waugh [aged 33].
On 27th October 1866 [her son] Cyril Hunt was born to [her husband] William Holman Hunt [aged 39] and Fanny Waugh [aged 33]. It is likely that this birth caused the death of his mother since she and William Holman-Hunt has only been married one year.
In December 1866 Fanny Waugh [aged 33] died either from childbirth or from cholera. She was buried at the English Cemetery, Florence next to Elizabeth Barrett Browning in a tomb sculpted by her husband William Holman Hunt [aged 39].
1868. [her former husband] William Holman Hunt [aged 40]. "Isabella, or the Pot of Basil" from the Keats Poem "Isabella and the Pot of Basil" from the Decameron Day Four Story Five. The model his eight months pregnant wife Fanny Waugh who died after the painting was begun. Hunt turned the painting into a memorial to his wife.
Isabella: Decameron Day Four Story Five. Summary. Lisabetta's brothers murder her lover. He appears to her in a dream and shows her where he is buried. She secretly disinters the head and places it in a pot of basil, over which she weeps for a long time every day. In the end her brothers take it away from her, and shortly thereafter she dies of grief.
1868. [her former husband] William Holman Hunt [aged 40]. "The Birthday". Model his future second wife [her half-sister] Marion Edith Waugh [aged 21] on her twenty-first birthday (sister of his deceased first wife Fanny Waugh).
In November 1875 [her former husband] William Holman Hunt [aged 48] and [her half-sister] Marion Edith Waugh [aged 28] were married at Neuchâtel, Switzerland since marrying your late wife's sister was illegal in England - see 1835 Marriage Act. She his first wife's younger sister contrary to English Law; an example of Married to Two Siblings. His brother-in-law Thomas Woolner [aged 49] considered the marriage immoral; they never spoke again.
On 7th September 1910 [her former husband] William Holman Hunt [aged 83] died. He was buried at St Paul's Cathedral [Map].