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Anne of Cleves (1515 – July 16, 1557) was Queen of England between January 6 to July 9, 1540 as the fourth wife of King Henry VIII. The nuptials were fuelled by Henry’s desire to align himself with Anne’s brother, the Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg, a leader of the Protestants in Germany. Upon her arrival in England, Henry is said to have been disappointed with Anne’s appearance, reportedly confiding to Thomas Cromwell, “I liked her before not well, but now I like her much worse.” The marriage was declared unconsummated after six months. Though the pair remained closed, Anne received a hefty settlement and from that point on became known as the King’s Beloved Sister. Though not part of the original New Addington estate, built from around 1934 by the First National Housing Trust, this appears to continue the developer’s theme of naming local streets after Tudor connections in reference to the fact that Henry VIII used to own a hunting lodge on what became the grounds of Addington Palace. It seems to have been built in the 1950s. The driving force behind the Trust was its chairman, Charles Boot, which explains why the earliest part of New Addington estate is sometimes referred to as The Boot Estate.
