The Life of Henry Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon

Henry Carey was an English peer, courtier and the only confirmed son of Mary Boleyn, by her first husband, William Carey, or was he? Thanks to Mary Boleyn’s affair with King Henry VIII, the parentage of her children has always been questioned, although Henry Carey’s less than his elder sister Catherine. Of the two, Henry is the lesser known, despite his position as a cousin of Elizabeth I, so who actually was this man? What were his early years like? What positions did he have at the Tudor court, and what evidence is there to suggest he was an illegitimate son of the king?