Long after Wyatt's death, his only legitimate son Sir Thomas Wyatt the Younger led a thwarted rebellion against Henry's daughter Mary I, for which he was executed. The rebellion's aim was to set on the throne the Protestant-minded Elizabeth, the daughter of Anne Boleyn.[36] Wyatt was an ancestor of Wallis Simpson, wife of the Duke of Windsor, formerly King Edward VIII.[37] Thomas Wyatt's great-grandson was Virginia Colony governor Sir Francis Wyatt.[38]
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