Daily entries from the 17th century London diary
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Her husband, George: http://www.pepysdiary.com/p/111.php
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National Portrait gallery: Annes miniature by Richard Earlom, after Unknown miniaturist
http://www.npg.org.uk/live/search/person.asp?LinkID=mp50386
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The following annotation was made by David Gurliacci (Tue 31 Dec 2002, 5:13 am) to the page for George Monck (http://www.pepysdiary.com/p/111.php#c37), but it refers largely to Anne Monck:
Monk
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Wife of George
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Anne’s portrait —
Artists were not paid to render their subjects “plain, homely, dowdy” — even if they really were. That’s why Cromwell’s “warts and all” is so memorable.
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for some nice bits of gossip about “Nan”, see:
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The link has changed :
http://www.bigenealogy.com/familychests/duches-of-albemarle.htm
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There is a real mystery here. Ann met Colonel Monk when he was imprisoned in the Tower in 1646 when she did his linen. She split from her first husband Thomas Radford in 1649. If Ann Monk’s first husband, Thomas Radford was still alive when she married General Monk in 1652 then she was a bigamist. This was tested in a court case in 1674 five years after her death and Radford could not be produced (21 years later) so it the accusation was found not proven. Even so sevweral witnesses said he was alive in 1664 and in 1667 and one that he even attended her funeral. However there was never any record of his burial. So what happened to him? How usual was this that there would be no burial record? Perhaps in the Great Fire. The Public record Office was safe in the White Tower so it would probably not be destroyed. All radford needed to do was to shop himself and the most powerful couple in the land would be destroyed. Did he ever try to blackmail them? Did they ever try to knock him off? Or did he maybe change his name?
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Radford, maybe have been happy she be gone, as he had plenty of luscious choices for compensation,and getting divorced [annulled]was very expensive for the unheeled, and civil marriages were not well documented.
Even in the 20th century married couples were not necessary married to each other, this would only come to light when somebody was looking for the gold and if gold was not available nobody bothered with the fine print. Lawyers would only invoke the law if there was a bone-us for them.Sharing a life is only done if there are benefits for both parties, no matter to the outsider, how un-even
they be and they always dissolve when one party gets no benefits.