outside reading

For this post I have decided to write a letter to the main character of the novel, Mary Boleyn.

 

Dear Mary, 

Why do you put up with your evil and manipulative sister? Why don't you just leave court to be with your husband and children? I know in the Howard family, it is family before anything else, but it seems like you are unhappy at court, and lets face it you are no longer as young as you were when you were in the kings favor. I know in your heart that you would rather be back at your new home Williams farm. So why not just leave in the middle of the night with your new daughter and Katherine and Henry. No one would know where you went and I doubt that anyone but George would notice for at least a week. I know things are bad at court anyways, the king having Anne followed by a witch hunter. The Howard family is no longer favored either, it’s the Seymors turn now. Anne is very upset that the king doesn’t want her company anymore and would do anything to be back in it. So when she miscarriages in front of the king and the entire court, this lost child cannot be covered with an excuse, like the last ones. There is much suspicion around Anne’s circle of friends. Just last week that stable boy was taken into custody, and no body has a clue why. So my advice to you Mary is to leave town and don’t look back because what you see will haunt you for the rest of you days.

 

Good luck to you and your twisted family!!

The Other Boleyn Girl pt. 4

Mary is in love again, but it is a forbidden love. He is William Stafford and he is a stable hand for Mary’s uncle. But with Anne married and pregnant with the king’s child, Mary thinks that nobody will notice if she leaves, because she is so very unhappy at court since William left. So she takes of, unaccompanied, and goes to find her one true love.  After riding for days on end, Mary finally reaches her destination. When William first lays eyes on her he thinks that she is there because she was banished from court for some reason and is only then coming back to him, but he is sadly mistaken. She tells him that nothing is wrong at court, she just couldn’t stand not being with him and she wants to be married. William warns her, “I have nothing,’ he warned me ‘I am a nobody as you rightly said.” But Mary didn’t care, and at the moment they were nobodies together. The next day the local priest married them. But the happiness couldn’t last forever; Mary was soon called back to court by her sister and new Queen of England. Anne was about to go into labor and needed the help of her sister.  So Mary, forced to come home, but with that newly wedded glow about her returned to court. When Mary arrived, Anne was going into labor. But Mary was surprised to see that princess Mary, Queen Katherine’s daughter, was there to help with this oncoming, foreseeable difficult labor. The whole country was waiting to see if this new queen could give Henry the heir he had thrown he way for.