I found a quote that I think is significant to the story so far. Mary Boleyn has been the center of the most glamorous court in Europe for three years now, but the king’s eye is turning to her biggest rival, her sister. Anne is supposed to hold him off during the day and Mary is to please him at night. Although Mary is Henry’s acknowledged lover, for many years now, Anne is slowly stealing him away. Anne has dreams of ruling all of England as queen, her plan is to make Henry fall for her and have him put the rightful queen aside.
“So I shall be queen,’ said Anne dreamily. ‘I shall be brother-in-law to the King of England,’ George said, as if he could hardly believe it. ‘And what shall I be?’ I spat. I would not be the king’s favorite, I would not be the center of court. I would lose the place I had worked for since I was twelve years old. I would be last year’s whore. ‘You’ll be my lady in waiting,’ Anne said sweetly. ‘You’ll be the other Boleyn girl.” (p. 258-259)
Anne knows just how to keep the king wanting more, and she has a hard time keeping him off. There is an intense lust between the two and Anne thinks that she can get him to give up his loyal wife of almost thirty years for her. She just needs to play her cards right. But all her sister wants to do is be with her children, at the Howard home in Heaver, but she is even forbidden that. Will the king leave Queen Katharine for the beautiful Anne Boleyn? Will Mary ever find true love again?
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