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I love how this book is going. Anne Boleyn's life Told from the perspective of Thomas, a poet!!

This book offered insights on Anne Boleyn that seemed to parallel today.Be thankful forf democracy!

'Oh, God, surely there must be a way of escape for her. The King is a man. Surely he is not so completely devoid of pity. Only in January, she was carrying his child in her body. Surely the King must now realise that the miscarriage and deformed babe was no fault of hers, rather something which was utterly tragic to them both. The Duke of Norfolk had said she had miscarried of her saviour.'

'many long years ago, Anne had no love for the King, but with the passing of year upon year her feelings for him had become changed from hate into pity, and then to something akin to love. Perverse, indeed, are the winds of human life. And, as Anne grew to love him, so did the King's feelings for her change into something alike to hate. Hatred exposed to all close to them after the dead, deformed boy had been born.'

'In January 1534, three months after the birth of Elizabeth, Anne was overjoyed to find herself again with child. With Elizabeth's birth, discovering no true fulfilment in her marriage to the King, Anna realised being a mother would allow her another kind of fulfilment and one she always yearned for. Thus, the thought of another child so soon filled her with considerable delight.'

Wrong book -_-

'Ruthven and another conspirator struck at Rizzio with their daggers behind Mary's back. She later said that the blows had been so close to her, 'she felt the coldness of the iron'. Darnley was distraught. It is sometimes alleged that one of the plot's aims, if not to assassinate Mary, was at least to trigger a fatal miscarriage, as she was six months pregnant. This is entirely implausible'

'Anne. Anna. My beloved. My dark lady. Now the anointed Queen of all England. Queen Consort to King Henry. The die was cast, she had once said. Aye, the game, for the moment, was won. All she needed now was to have the Prince all England prayed for and the game would be forever won.'

'When Wolsey returned from France in the summer of 1527, Anne had titled the power balance completely over in her favour. No longer would Henry sign Wolsey's charters without first reading them for himself. No longer would the King receive Wolsey into his company without first acquiring the approval of that upstart Anne Boleyn. Clearly, the writing, for the Great Cardinal, was on the wall!'

'King Henry had taken great notice of the girl who sang and played the lute to his Queen like an angel. Too much notice. For now our King wished to make her his latest quarry, having tired of Mary Boleyn and wanting to replace one sister with another. But Anne and Hal were so caught up in their innocent world of young love both of them were completely unaware of the lustful gleam in the King's eye'

"Have you not heard a word I have said? Boleyn does not think a Wyatt's good enough to kiss his feet, despite our kinship to his wife. Why do you insist in believing he would even begin to listen to a suggestion of joining our bloodlines with his? He has his sights set higher than what he can see at Allington... you have as much chance of gaining Anne Boleyn as a dog has of gaining the moon."

'Without any doubt, Anne and the King had a love of music in common. Many, many years later, when our lives began to be deeply shadowed by what the fates had in store for us, Anne told me this. The King first became interested in her when he stood outside Queen Catherine's door and heard a lovely voice accompanied by a skilful lute player.'

'Nonetheless, it was extremely difficult for my cousins to grow up as children of my uncle... He was also an extremely ambitious man, a man who planned to step higher in the society in which he lived via the use of his three young children. And they were intelligent enough to realise, from an early age, what his purposes and ambitions were. His children also knew that they had to strive very hard indeed'