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Elizabeth Holland (died 1547/8), commonly known as Bess Holland, was the mistress of Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk and maid-of-honour to his niece, Anne Boleyn, the second wife of Henry VIII of England. The daughter of the Duke’s secretary, she worked for eight years as a laundress in the household of Norfolk’s wife, Elizabeth Stafford, Duchess of Norfolk.