In common English translations of his love letters to her what did Henry viii call anne Boleyn's breasts?

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2026-08-09 18:55

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Several undated love letters from Henry VIII (1491 - 1547) to Anne Boleyn (c1501-07 - 1536) were found in the Vatican Library. They were probably originally stolen from Anne, during the annullment proceedings between Katherine of Aragon and Henry. As can be seen from this letter, Henry affectionately refers to Anne's "pretty dukkys":

Mine own sweetheart, these shall be to advertise you of the great loneliness that I find here since your departing, for I ensure you methinketh the time longer since your departing now last than I was wont to do a whole fortnight: I think your kindness and my fervents of love causeth it, for otherwise I would not have thought it possible that for so little a while it should have grieved me, but now that I am coming toward you methinketh my pains been half released.... Wishing myself (specially an evening) in my sweetheart's arms, whose pretty dukkys I trust shortly to kiss. Written with the hand of him that was, is, and shall be yours by his will.

H.R.

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