The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn (36 page)

H
ENRY
VIII
His “blind and wretched passion” for
Anne had long since abated.

J
ANE
S
EYMOUR
“The new amours of the King
go on, to the intense rage of the
Concubine.”

S
IR
N
ICHOLAS
C
AREW
“It will not be the fault of this
Master of the Horse if the
Concubine be not dismounted.”

T
HE
L
ADY
M
ARY
“When I have a
son,” Anne Boleyn
wrote, “I know
what then will
come to her.”

H
ENRY
F
ITZ
R
OY
, D
UKE OF
R
ICHMOND
His father the King told him he was
lucky to have “escaped the hands of
that accursed whore.”

T
HOMAS
H
OWARD
, D
UKE OF
N
ORFOLK
He referred to Anne, his niece, as
“the great whore.”

T
HOMAS
B
OLEYN
,
E
ARL OF
W
ILTSHIRE
He connived at his children’s
fate, and even sat in judgment
on them.

S
IGNATURE OF
G
EORGE
B
OLEYN
,
L
ORD
R
OCHFORD

S
IGNATURE OF
M
ARK
S
MEATON

H
ENRY
P
ARKER
, L
ORD
M
ORLEY
He had instilled in his daughter
Jane, Lady Rochford, such
loyalty to the Lady Mary as
would prove fatal to the
Boleyns.

T
HOMAS
C
ROMWELL
,
“M
ASTER
S
ECRETARY
”
“He thought up and plotted
the affair of the Concubine.”

S
IR
W
ILLIAM
F
ITZ
W
ILLIAM
“A good servant” of the King,
he was instrumental in
bringing Anne to ruin.