One afternoon in 1524
Cardinal Wolsey crossed over to his desk; he wasn’t happy with what he’d just seen. Henry Percy and Anne Boleyn engaged in a passionate embrace, again. He sat and began to write, from what he knew of Henry Percy, it was going to take his father to straighten him out. Wolsey had already told Percy that Anne Boleyn was to wed James Butler to settle the family dispute over the co-heiresses of Ormonde. But young Percy had insisted they were in love, that Anne was honorable and worthy to be his wife; in short, the lad was in love and being led about by his cock.
Anne Boleyn did NOT want to marry some strange Irishman to settle the problem between her father and his Irish cousin. So far as she was concerned, the men should settle it without her. She was as ambitious as her father, but they had differing views on how to advance the Boleyn fortunes. She loved Henry Percy and thought she could make something of him. He needed his spine stiffened a bit, to stand up to Wolsey and his father. That was the trouble with men; they always believed whatever someone over them told them. She knew better, she wasn’t going to end up like her sister, married to a courtier of no real title and servicing the King. But it would require some planning on her part to bring about what she and Henry wanted. She would need to go see her sister, to set things in motion.
Cardinal Wolsey crossed over to his desk; he wasn’t happy with what he’d just seen. Henry Percy and Anne Boleyn engaged in a passionate embrace, again. He sat and began to write, from what he knew of Henry Percy, it was going to take his father to straighten him out. Wolsey had already told Percy that Anne Boleyn was to wed James Butler to settle the family dispute over the co-heiresses of Ormonde. But young Percy had insisted they were in love, that Anne was honorable and worthy to be his wife; in short, the lad was in love and being led about by his cock.
Anne Boleyn did NOT want to marry some strange Irishman to settle the problem between her father and his Irish cousin. So far as she was concerned, the men should settle it without her. She was as ambitious as her father, but they had differing views on how to advance the Boleyn fortunes. She loved Henry Percy and thought she could make something of him. He needed his spine stiffened a bit, to stand up to Wolsey and his father. That was the trouble with men; they always believed whatever someone over them told them. She knew better, she wasn’t going to end up like her sister, married to a courtier of no real title and servicing the King. But it would require some planning on her part to bring about what she and Henry wanted. She would need to go see her sister, to set things in motion.