Jane Boleyn: The True Story of the Infamous Lady Rochford (33 page)

Sir Thomas More.

The Challenge for Capturing a Castle. The court entertainments at Christmas, 1526, included this spectacular pageant.

“Assembling the Riders,” taken from the David and Bathsheba tapestry series still extant. Henry’s tapestries were likely to have been very similar to the series from which this is taken.

Henry reading in his bedchamber. An illustration from the Latin psalter illuminated for the King by Jean Maillart, which contains Henry’s marginalia claiming similarities between his own life and that of King David.

Cardinal Wolsey.

Henry dining in his privy chamber surrounded by his gentlemen. His cloth of estate is clearly visible.

The Court of the King’s Bench, Westminster. The prisoners in the foreground await their fate.

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Thomas Boleyn’s signed conveyance of his fabulous estate of New Hall in Essex to Henry VIII. After remodeling the house in the grandest, most sumptuous style, Henry changed its name to Beaulieu, giving it to George and Jane Boleyn as a grace and favor residence.

Anne Boleyn.

Hever Castle, the Boleyn seat in Kent, where Dr. Butts once fought for Anne’s life against the sweating sickness. The castle was bought and restored by William Waldorf Astor in the early years of the twentieth century.

Sir Thomas Wyatt, Anne Boleyn’s poet suitor.

The brass tomb effigy of Thomas Boleyn, Earl of Wiltshire, Jane’s father-in-law, wearing the robes and insignia of a Knight of the Garter, and with the family falcon emblem above his right shoulder.

Thomas Cromwell.