➜ Come visit the tomb of Anne Boleyn's father, Sir Thomas Boleyn, in St Peter's Church, Hever, Kent ➜ See his monumental brass figure dressed as a knight of the Order of the Garter ➜ Also see the small grave of Anne's brother Henry Boleyn, who died as a very young child ➜ First in a series of episodes on the burial place of Anne Boleyn's father, Thomas Boleyn ➜

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KEY MOMENTS
00:00:00 Opening titles and introduction
00:00:13 Plane flying over church and walking into graveyard
00:00:41 Church steeple and interest in the Tudors and Boleyn family
00:00:54 Gravestone of Frances King d. 1869, daughter of John Barton and Elizabeth Keeys of Four Elms Farm and wife of Jonas King, surgeon of South Lambeth and graves next to church
00:01:15 First visit to Hever Castle as a child with my dad and visiting the church and Boleyn tombs
00:01:37 Brick tomb chest to an unknown person
00:01:54 Is the church open?
00:02:04 The church is open! The font by the door
00:02:12 Inside the church
00:02:32 Looking again at the font
00:02:56 Memorial brass of Margaret Cheyne d. 1419
00:03:26 Tomb of Thomas Bullen or Boleyn d. 1538, father of Anne Boleyn
00:03:37 Tomb is set in a recess, so floor level must have been raised
00:03:55 Damaged sides of tomb chest
00:04:07 Monumental brass on top of tomb chest
00:04:17 Feet of brass, with griffin
00:04:27 Shading on face of monumental brass
00:05:08 Insignia of Knight of the Garter. "Honi soit qui mal y pense" is Latin for "shamed be whoever thinks ill of it"
00:05:23 Inscription
00:05:50 Damage to edge tomb
00:06:01 End of tomb with missing shield and damage
00:06:17 Grave slab with brass of Henry Boleyn, son of Thomas Boleyn and Elizabeth Howard and brother of Queen Anne Boleyn
00:07:22 Wall monument to Harriette Ellen, wife of Edmund Waldo MeadeWaldo d. 1875
00:07:36 Wall monuments to Edmund Wakefield MeadeWaldo d, 1858 and Gustavus Rochfort MeadeWaldo d. 1862, Colonel Rochfort d. 1848, wife Dorothy d. 1856 and son Gustavus d. 1855 and Harriet Bloomfield, wife of Edmund Wakefield Mead Waldo d. 1838
00:07:47 Monuments to the Mead Waldo family in the chapel
00:07:58 Stone in floor inscribed with 'E.W.M.W.' so clearly a Mead Waldo and fireplace in the chapel
00:08:13 Whose is the grave under the carpet?
00:08:49 Guide book and post cards
00:09:12 Looking through the church guide
00:09:33 Looking at the plan of the church and comparing it to the visible monuments
00:10:04 No other stones on the floor of the church and memorial to soldiers of the parish who died in the war
00:10:26 The burial places of the other members of the Boleyn family, including Anne's mother Elizabeth Boleyn, formerly Howard
00:11:08 Closing titles

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