Bridget Harvey

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Bridget Wiltshire was an English courtier. She was the neighbour, close friend and lady-in-waiting to Anne Boleyn, the second wife of Henry VIII of England. She was the wife of Sir Richard Wingfield and the daughter of Sir John Wiltshire of Stone Castle, Kent, a neighbour of the Boleyn family. After the death of her first husband, she married Sir Nicholas Hervey, her second husband, whom she was married to for about seven years. Her third husband was Sir Robert Tyrwhit.

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