Charlie Fenton’s Reviews > Six Lives: The Stories of Henry VIII's Queens > Status Update

'Holbein's portrait drawing of Jane had also passed into Henry's possession following the artist's death in 1543; poignantly, Holbein's book of 'patterns for physiognomies' was among the first items that the nine-year-old King Edward requested to be brought to him after his father's death.'

'Jane's memory seems to have been treasured at Henry's court, with her clothing going into long-term storage in Whitehall Palace rather than being dispersed. She was also the only one of Henry's first five queens whose portrait he kept. The 1547 inventory lists 'a table like a book, with the pictures of king Henry the eighth and Queen Jane'.'

It is an interesting thought that the men of this time that were condemned/accused of affairs were often musicians, as has been pointed out in this chapter. They mention Henry Manox with Katherine Howard, David Rizzio with Mary, Queen of Scots, then of course Mark Smeaton and Thomas Wyatt with Anne Boleyn (although Wyatt was set free).

'If Anne entertained such 'womanish' men as Smeaton and Wyatt in her private circle, it suggested a mutual lack of discipline that gave credence to the outlandish allegations against her. Given the popularity of the rich literary tradition praising the virtue of the equilibrium of the soul and the perils that emerged when an imbalance was caused by excess and indulgence'