When the King and Queen dined privately, they would often send for Thomas More to be ‘merry with them’, and so much did they enjoy his company that, according to his son-in-law, William Roper, ‘he could not once in a month get leave to go home to his wife and children’. The King would frequently summon More to his private study, where the two men would sit for hours discussing astronomy, geometry and divinity. All of this brought its rewards, of
