The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn (37 page)

E
LIZABETH
B
ROWNE
,
C
OUNTESS OF
W
ORCESTER
She was “the first accuser”
of the Queen.

T
HE
I
NDICTMENT AGAINST
A
NNE
B
OLEYN AND
L
ORD
R
OCHFORD
“She incited her own natural brother
to violate her.”

A
NNE
B
OLEYN
She had clearly overstepped the conventional
bounds of courtly banter between
queen and servant, man and woman.

G
REENWICH
P
ALACE,
WHERE
A
NNE
B
OLEYN WAS ARRESTED
“I was cruelly handled at Greenwich
with the King’s Council.”

T
HIS FANCIFUL, ROMANTIC PAINTING SHOWS
A
NNE
B
OLEYN SAYING
A FINAL FAREWELL TO HER DAUGHTER, THE
P
RINCESS
E
LIZABETH
“Never shall I forget the sorrow I felt when I saw the most serene Queen,
your mother, carrying you, still a baby, in her arms.”

T
HE
T
OWER OF
L
ONDON
The King’s Hall, where Anne Boleyn was tried, can be seen behind the wall fronting the river; the Queen’s Lodgings, where she was held, can just be seen to the far right, stretching between the wall and the White Tower. The scaffold on Tower Hill, and the guns on the Tower wharf, are also visible.

A
ROMANTIC VIEW
: A
NNE
B
OLEYN AT THE
Q
UEEN’S
S
TAIRS
“Mr. Kingston, do I go to a dungeon?”

A
NNE
B
OLEYN IN THE
T
OWER
“One hour she is determined to die, and the next much contrary to that.”

A
NNE
B
OLEYN
, L
ADY
S
HELTON
The Queen thought it “much unkindness
in the King to put about
me such as I never loved.”

S
IR
T
HOMAS
W
YATT
“These bloody days have broken my
heart,” he mourned.

“T
O THE
K
ING FROM THE
L
ADY IN THE
T
OWER
”
For centuries, controversy has raged
over the authenticity of this letter.

W
ESTMINSTER
H
ALL, WHERE FOUR OF
A
NNE
B
OLEYN’S
CO-ACCUSED WERE TRIED ON
M
AY
12, 1536
“Suddenly the axe was turned towards them.”