Less immediately obvious casualties of events were the three great Court magnates in the King’s counsels, the Dukes of Norfolk and Suffolk and Anne Boleyn’s father the Earl of Wiltshire. Wiltshire was an able diplomat, but diplomats seldom have the qualities for leadership in government, and there was no question that he owed his sudden prominence to his daughter’s increasingly certain marriage to the King. His fortunes rose and fell in relation to hers, and he was no match for the new arrival among royal ministers.
