The History of Mary I, Queen of England: as found in the public records, despatches of ambassadors, in original private letters, and other contemporary documentsStone, J. M. (Jean Mary)
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The History of Mary I, Queen of England: as found in the public records, despatches of ambassadors, in original private letters, and other contemporary documents
Stone, J. M. (Jean Mary)
Great Britain -- History -- Tudors, 1485-1603; Mary I, Queen of England, 1516-1558
Between the beginning of August 1530 and May 1531, Henry lavished the
price of a king’s ransom in jewels upon Anne.[92] But in the catalogue
of presents made by him on New Year’s Day, 1532, the names of the Queen
and Princess are conspicuously followed by a blank space. Not only
did he send them none, but he forbade the members of his council, and
others to do so, and this year he abstained for the first time from
making presents to the ladies of Katharine’s and Mary’s households. But
to Anne he gave the hangings of a room in cloth of gold and silver,
and crimson satin with costly embroideries. She was now lodged in
the Queen’s apartments, and had almost as many ladies as if she were
already queen. Katharine sent a gold cup to the King as a present,
but he returned it to her, with a message praising its beauty, but
informing her that he could receive no gift from her. So complete was
the power of Anne over him at this time, that he was less free than the
least of his subjects; and this power she continued to exercise during
the entire year then beginning, and a few months longer. Chapuys told
the Emperor that one day Henry had met his daughter walking in the
fields, but did not say much to her, except to ask her how she was,
and to assure her that in future he would see her more often. “It is
certain,” he continued, “that the King dares [not] bring her where the
Lady is, for she does not wish to see her or hear of her.” He thought
that the King would have talked with Mary longer and more familiarly,
if the Lady had not sent two of her people to listen. The Princess,
he adds, was to be at Windsor during her father’s absence in France,
whither he was to be accompanied by Anne, and the Queen was very much
afraid that he would marry his mistress at the impending interview
with the French king. “But the Lady has assured some person in whom she
trusts, that even if the King wished, she would not consent, for she
wishes it to be done here, in the place where queens are wont to be
married and crowned.”[93]
In anticipation of the journey to France, Anne had been created
Marchioness of Pembroke on the 1st September 1532,[94] and was to
appear at the meeting with Francis, in great state as the future queen;
but as no royal lady could be prevailed on to meet her, not even the
Queen of Navarre, who was supposed to be her friend, she was obliged to
go unattended by a suite.[95]
She accompanied Henry to Calais, and remained there while he proceeded
to join Francis at Boulogne. The two Kings returned together to Calais,
and Francis presented Anne with a valuable jewel, complimenting her
much on her beautiful dancing. But all this was humiliation compared
with the ambitious hopes she had founded on the meeting, and she was
more than ever impatient for her marriage, when she imagined that
slights would no longer be her portion.
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