How It All Goes Down
Autumn 1533
- Anne goes into labor. The pain she experiences can only be a fraction of the pain normal people feel by merely dealing with her on a daily basis.
- The baby is born without a hitch.
- Okay, there's one small hitch: it's a girl. Might as well put the thing in a sack and drop it off a bridge now.
- Anne names the baby Elizabeth and arranges for her to be sent away and cared for.
- Among the baby's caretakers will be Princess Mary, Katherine's daughter.
- Mary Boleyn finds it especially offensive that Anne is having another princess serve her daughter. But being offensive is what Anne does best.
- Anne has more news that is offensive to Mary: she is putting Mary's son, Henry, in the care of Sir Francis Weston.
- Mary is furious and swears to William that she'll kill Anne for putting her son in the care "of those sodomites!" (39.61). Oh, dear.
- William swears he and Mary will get Henry back somehow. Good luck.