I have to admit that I was kind of amused at how they had to put in that the house was originally owned by someone related to Anne Boleyn. I guess they know what grabs the eyeballs these days! Well, and it is<\/b> what caused the article to show up on my Google alerts…<\/p>\n
From the BBC:<\/p>\n
Prince Charles may have only recently bought his first home in Wales, but its royal connections go back centuries, an historian has discovered.<\/p>\n
The original owner of Llwynywermod in Carmarthenshire was related to the second wife of Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn.<\/p>\n
Mark Baker, of Prestatyn, Denbighshire, unravelled the history of what was once one of Wales’ finest homes.
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\n“I have uncovered that [the house] goes back to about the 13th or 14th Centuries when it was owned by relatives of Anne Boleyn, Henry V111’s second wife.<\/p>\n“And the Griffies-Williams family in the early 18th century were quite close to the royals and received a baronetcy.
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