Catherine Carey's AI Portrait Paternity Test - Was Henry VIII her Dad?

Catherine and Henry Carey were famous illegitimate children of Henry VIII.
Can we try and test whether they were Henry VIII's illegitimate children?
This video outlined our Portrait Paternity Tests for Catherine and Henry Carey to answer the critical question: Were they Henry VIII’s children?

Chapters:
00:00 Catherine Carey and Henry Carey: How did the Tudor Rumours start
00:50 How do we intend on testing? Our Portrait Paternity Test?
01:00 The Portrait Paternity Test for Catherine Carey
02:18 The AI Avatar-based Upgraded Portrait Paternity Test for Catherine Carey
02:50 Henry VIII and William Carey Avatars
03:18 Comparing Catherine Carey and the results of the Portraits Paternity Test
04:12 Henry Carey’s Portrait Paternity Test
04:55 Other Historical Evidence
05:30 Lettice Knollys and Robert Dudley
05:40 Our Conclusions

Catherine Carey (1524-1569) and her brother Henry Carey (1526-1596) were the children of Mary Boleyn and William Carey.
Mary Boleyn was the mistress of Henry VIII for a few years surrounding their birth.
Their extramarital affair led to rumours that Catherine Carey and Henry Carey were the illegitimate children of Henry VIII.
Catherine Carey’s father, William Carey, was a close friend of Henry VIII and his esquire of the body.
People believed that he condoned and profited from his wife’s affair with the King.
How can we test if Catherine Carey and her brother Henry Carey were Henry VIII’s illegitimate children or not?
Let us conduct our Portrait Paternity Tests.

Step 1: Catherine Carey’s Portrait Paternity Test
To test these claims, we compared Catherine Carey’s portrait to the contemporary paintings of Elizabeth I, William Carey and Henry VIII.
The preliminary results were fascinating.
The results showed apparent similarities between the paintings of Catherine and those of Elizabeth I.
More significantly, Catherine’s portrait showed a close resemblance to Henry VIII’s paintings.
Her portraits and William Carey’s portraits showed the lowest level of similarities.
The results are consistent with the rumours that her father might be Henry VIII rather than William Carey.

Step 2: Catherine Carey’s Portrait Paternity Test using AI-generated Avatars
There are definite limitations to using portraits to compare the likeness of people, as paintings may be painted at different angles or using different styles.
We further improved the tests to overcome these limitations by creating two different Catherine Carey AI avatars.
The Two Avatars we have created are between 87% to 90%, similar to her portrait.
Her avatars showed a beautiful and confident Elizabethan woman from different angles.
We then created two different AI avatars for Henry VIII and two avatars for William Carey.
We compared the likeness of Catherine Carey’s AI avatars to the Henry VIII and William Carey avatars.
The similarity between Catherine Carey’s avatar and Henry VIII’s avatars is above 70%.
The results again confirmed that her avatar was much more similar to the Avatars of Henry VIII.
These results give further weight to the Tudor rumours.

Henry Carey’s Portrait Paternity Test
We conducted the same tests on the portraits and avatars of Henry Carey, Catherine’s younger brother, who was born in 1526.
The results also showed a close resemblance to Henry VIII.
The portraits and avatars tests achieved Similarity Scores of 70 per cent or more.
Henry Carey was also less similar to William Carey.
The similarity between his portrait and avatar and those of William Carey was between 17% and 43%.
Once again, the results showed that Henry Carey might be Henry VIII’s illegitimate son.

Historical Evidence
Interestingly, William Carey and Mary Boleyn named their firstborn son Henry as most families named their oldest son after the father.
Mary Boleyn and William Carey might have confirmed their belief over Henry Carey’s illegitimate status by naming him after his birth father.
Secondly, Henry Carey served in many influential and strategic roles for Elizabeth I and seemed to enjoy her utmost level of trust.
Catherine served as the chief lady of the Bedchamber for Elizabeth between 1559 and her death in January 1569.
Catherine’s daughter, Lettice Knollys, who married Robert Dudley, was said to resemble Elizabeth I closely.

We hope you enjoyed this video on the Portrait Paternity Test for Catherine Carey and Henry Carey and their status as illegitimate children of Henry VIII.

The first music is “Pitchoun” by Dominique Carpentier, licensed via Music Vine: ZETEPQENDLHHZFII.
The second piece of music is “Do Not Forsake” by Paulo Kalazzi, licensed via Music Vine: CVW6OLRTHLORA2RL

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