Discussion: George

"After reading The Other Boleyn Girl, i fell i love with George's sweet esscence and fun personality. He seemed like the
the ultimate brother and flirty courtier. Does anyone else view him as a nice person that could be trusted? If i lived in
Tudor England, i would deinatley befriend him quickly. What are your views on his person?"

"I don't see him as sweet or fun only because I have read that because he did not want to be married to Jane Rochford he was very cruel to her. Also that he was somewhat of a womanizer. I'd be afraid of befriending anybody because you never knew who the King was going to be mad at next, and you might be dragged off to the scaffold just for fraterinizing with someone out of favor! I agree that in the movie George looked sweet and innocent. Hope I don't sound like an old crone. "

"Angelosdaughter has all the low-down on George and Jane. I think he did not want to marry her and the marriage was forced by his father? At any rate, it's been alleged that he did not want to go to bed with her, and elsewhere, that she was always chasing him to get him into bed? Other threads have discussed his alleged homosexuality and wiki members generally think that is un true and unsubstantiated. Angelosdaughter says Jane never really "told" on George at all. I guess there is a new book about her where there is more factual information. What is inferred is that she was jealous of George's very close and intimate relationship with his sisters - especially Anne - and that's where some fiction writers go off the deep end having George sleep with Anne and having Jane bent on revenge...IMO the bad guy is Thomas Boyelyn, I think he was a bad father and nothing is known much about their mom. So any faults Anne, Mary and George had I tend to chalk up to dysfunctional dad."

"The only possible evidence she might have given (and the only reason she is even connected with it was that as George's wife she was the only other person besides Anne and George who was likely to have been told), was probably intimidated or tricked out of her. (Again, though, she is never mentioned as the source of the evidence). As George's wife she might have revealed a husband-wife conversation in which George may have related to Jane that Anne had told him the King was impotent. That was the information which George read aloud in court from a piece of paper and sealed his fate. He had been told to read it silently. Until he read it aloud, everyone thought he would be freed.
If you want to learn what little there is to be known of the George and Jane Boleyn marriage, borrow Julia Fox's "Jane Boleyn the True Story of the Infamous Lady Rochford". Fox is a meticulous researcher; there just isn't much actual documentation of George and Jane until the fall of Anne Boleyn, and in the case of Jane alone, the fall of Katherine Howard. Much of what we think we know about George and Jane comes from dramatizations in which there is a lot of dramatic license which comes from the fact that there is so little historical fact known about their marriage and one small note in the margine of work by John Foxe, apoligist for the Protestant Martyrs. a clergyman wrting long after the fact to ingratiate himself Anne's daughter, Elizabeth I. In his "Actes and Monuments", and in only one edition (1576). Julia Fox is not even sure that John Foxe is the author of the note. She says it could have been added by the printer. The note says"It is reported of some that this Lady Rochford forged a false letter against her husband and Queen Anne her sister by the which they were both cast away. which if it be so, the judgement of God is here to be marked." The note did not appear in the original 1563 edition of the work. "

"Well, after that recommendation, Karen, I just couldn't resist, but I wish I could make my posts a bit shorter. I just don't know how to do that and get all the information in. "

"After reading The Other Boleyn Girl, i fell i love with George's sweet esscence and fun personality. He seemed like the
the ultimate brother and flirty courtier. Does anyone else view him as a nice person that could be trusted? If i lived in
Tudor England, i would deinatley befriend him quickly. What are your views on his person?"