However in 1527 Norfolk took a mistress, Bess Holland, the daughter of his steward, with whom he lived openly at Kenninghall, and whom the Duchess described variously in her letters as a bawd, a drab, and 'a churl's daughter', 'which was but washer of my nursery eight years'.
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He died at Kenninghall on 25 August 1554, and was buried at St. Michael's Church at Framlingham in Suffolk.
In 1933, he emigrated from Germany due to the Nazi regime and after that worked as a music teacher in Kenninghall, England.
The house served as a residence for both of Henry VIII's daughters: Princess Mary and Princess Elizabeth at different times during the reign of Edward VI.
After the coronation, the Norfolk's retired to Kenninghall and did not return to London until the following autumn.