The fall of Anne Boleyn, in 1536, was probably the greatest scandal of the Tudor age. She had no compunction in persuading the King to banish the disgraced couple from court.
Anne was furious, for Stafford was no match for the Queen’s sister. Mary confessed that she had secretly, and of necessity, married – for love – plain Mr William Stafford, a younger son of knightly birth with no fortune. Never again would she take Henry to task for being unfaithful.īy 1534, after having failed to bear Henry VIII a son, Anne Boleyn’s influence was declining, so she had good reason to be humiliated when her widowed sister Mary appeared at court noticeably pregnant. Yet it was a wife’s duty to maintain a dignified silence in the face of infidelity, and in the end, Katherine had to concede defeat. The King ‘showed great displeasure’ and banished Lady FitzWalter from court, convinced that she had set women to spy on him in order to tell the Queen of his adultery but Katherine already knew, and there was a very public row. Buckingham berated Anne, and her irate husband carried her off to a nunnery. He kept his affair with Anne, Lady Hastings, a secret until her sister, Lady FitzWalter, wishing to spare her family a scandal, told her brother, the Duke of Buckingham, what was going on. In 1510, when Katherine of Aragon, was expecting their second child, Henry VIII strayed for the first time. We asked Alison to tell us the six most scandalous affairs in Tudor history, and here’s what she said: Urged to return the King’s affection and earn favour for her family, Jane is drawn into a dangerous political game that pits her conscience against her desires.
For Jane, the betrayal triggers memories of a haunting incident that shaped her beliefs about marriage.īut once Henry disavows Katherine and secures Anne as his new queen-forever altering the religious landscape of England-he turns his eye to another: Jane herself. The devout Katherine shows kindness to all her ladies, almost like a second mother, which makes rumours of Henry’s lustful pursuit of Anne Boleyn-also lady-in-waiting to the queen-all the more shocking. But her large noble family has other plans, and as an adult, Jane is invited to the King’s court to serve as lady-in-waiting to Queen Katherine of Aragon. Jane Seymour, The Haunted Queen is Alison Weir’s latest in the Six Tudor Queens series of historical fiction books.Īcclaimed author and historian Alison Weir continues her epic series with this third captivating novel, which brings to life Jane Seymour, King Henry VIII’s most cherished bride and mother of his only legitimate male heir.Įver since she was a child, Jane has longed for a cloistered life as a nun.
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