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  Author’s Note

  Mary and William Stafford lived happily together at Rochford. When her parents died (in 1538 and 1539), Mary inherited the whole of the Boleyn family holdings in Essex, and she and William became wealthy landowners.

  She died in 1543 and her son, Henry Carey, rose to become a major advisor and courtier at the court of his cousin, Queen Elizabeth I, the greatest queen England ever had. She made him Viscount Hunsdon. Mary’s daughter Catherine married Sir Francis Knollys and founded a great Elizabethan dynasty.

  I am indebted to Retha M. Warnicke, whose book The Rise and Fall of Anne Boleyn has been a most helpful source for this story. I have followed Warnicke’s original and provocative thesis that the homosexual ring around Anne, including her brother George, and her last miscarriage created a climate in which the king could accuse her of witchcraft and perverse sexual practices.

  I am very grateful to the following authors, whose books helped me to trace the otherwise untold story of Mary Boleyn, or provided background for the period:

  Bindoff, S. T., Pelican History of England: Tudor England, Penguin, 1993

  Bruce, Marie Louise, Anne Boleyn, Collins, 1972

  Cressy, David, Birth, Marriage and Death, ritual religions and the life-cycle in Tudor and Stuart England, OUP, 1977

  Darby, H. C., A new historical geography of England before 1600, CUP, 1976

  Elton, G. R., England under the Tudors, Methuen, 1955

  Fletcher, Anthony, Tudor Rebellions, Longman, 1968

  Guy, John, Tudor England, OUP, 1988

  Haynes, Alan, Sex in Elizabethan England, Sutton, 1997

  Loades, David, The Tudor Court, Batsford, 1986

  Loades, David, Henry VIII and his Queens, Sutton, 2000

  Mackie, J. D., Oxford History of England, The Earlier Tudors, OUP, 1952

  Plowden, Alison, Tudor Women, Queens and Commoners, Sutton, 1998

  Randell, Keith, Henry VIII and the Reformation in England, Hodder, 1993

  Scarisbrick, J. J., Yale English Monarchs: Henry VIII, YUP, 1997

  Smith, Baldwin Lacey, A Tudor Tragedy, the life and times of Catherine Howard, Cape, 1961

  Starkey, David, The Reign of Henry VIII, Personalities and Politics, G. Philip, 1985

  Starkey, David, Henry VIII: A European Court in England, Collins and Brown, 1991

  Tillyard, E. M. W., The Elizabethan World Picture, Pimlico, 1943

  Turner, Robert, Elizabethan Magic, Element, 1989

  Warnicke, Retha M., The Rise and Fall of Anne Boleyn, CUP, 1991

  Weir, Alison, The Six Wives of Henry VIII, Pimlico, 1997

  Young, Joyce, Penguin Social History of Britain, Penguin

  PHILIPPA GREGORY

  THE BOLEYN INHERITANCE

  Dedication

  For Anthony

  Contents

  Cover

  Title Page

  Dedication

  Jane Boleyn, Blickling Hall, Norfolk, July 1539

  Anne, Duchess of Cleves, Duren, Cleves, July 1539

  Katherine, Norfolk House, Lambeth, July 1539

  Jane Boleyn, Blickling Hall, Norfolk, November 1539

  Anne, Cleves Town, November 1539

  Katherine, Norfolk House, Lambeth, November 1539

  Jane Boleyn, Greenwich Palace, December 1539

  Katherine, Norfolk House, Lambeth, December 1539

  Anne, Calais, December 1539

  Jane Boleyn, Calais, December 1539

  Katherine, Norfolk House, Lambeth, December 1539

  Anne, Calais, December 1539

  Jane Boleyn, Rochester, December 1539

  Katherine, Rochester, New Year’s Eve 1539

  Jane Boleyn, Rochester, New Year’s Eve 1539

  Katherine, Rochester, New Year’s Eve 1539

  Jane Boleyn, Rochester, New Year’s Eve 1539

  Anne, New Year’s Day, on the road to Dartford, 1540

  Katherine, Dartford, 2 January 1540

  Anne, Blackheath, 3 January 1540

  Katherine, Greenwich Palace, 3 January 1540

  Jane Boleyn, Greenwich Palace, 3 January 1540

  Anne, Greenwich Palace, 3 January 1540

  Katherine, Greenwich Palace, 6 January 1540

  Anne, Greenwich Palace, 6 January 1540

  Jane Boleyn, Greenwich Palace, 6 January 1540

  Anne, Greenwich Palace, 6 January 1540

  Katherine, Greenwich Palace, 7 January 1540

  Jane Boleyn, Whitehall Palace, January 1540

  Anne, Whitehall Palace, January 1540

  Katherine, Whitehall Palace, January 1540

  Anne, Whitehall Palace, 11 January 1540

  Jane Boleyn, Whitehall Palace, February 1540

  Katherine, Whitehall Palace, February 1540

  Anne, Hampton Court, March 1540

  Jane Boleyn, Hampton Court, March 1540

  Katherine, Hampton Court, March 1540

  Anne, Hampton Court, March 1540

  Jane Boleyn, Hampton Court, March 1540

  Katherine, Hampton Court, March 1540

  Anne, Hampton Court, March 1540

  Katherine, Hampton Court, March 1540

  Jane Boleyn, Hampton Court, March 1540

  Katherine, Westminster Palace, April 1540

  Anne, Westminster Palace, April 1540

  Jane Boleyn, Westminster Palace, May 1540

  Anne, Westminster Palace, June 1540

  Jane Boleyn, Westminster Palace, June 1540

  Katherine, Norfolk House, Lambeth, June 1540

  Anne, Westminster Palace, 10 June 1540

  Jane Boleyn, Westminster Palace, 24 June, 1540

  Anne, Richmond Palace, July 1540

  Jane Boleyn, Westminster Palace, 7 July 1540

  Anne, Richmond Palace, 8 July 1540

  Jane Boleyn, Richmond Palace, 8 July 1540

  Katherine, Norfolk House, Lambeth, 9 July 1540

  Anne, Richmond Palace, 12 July 1540

  Katherine, Norfolk House, Lambeth, 12 July 1540

  Anne, Richmond Palace, 13 July 1540

  Queen Katherine, Oatlands Palace, 28 July 1540

  Jane Boleyn, Oatlands Palace, 30 July 1540

  Anne, Richmond Palace, 6 August 1540

  Katherine, Hampton Court, August 1540

  Jane Boleyn, Windsor Palace, October 1540

  Katherine, Hampton Court, October 1540

  Anne, Richmond Palace, October 1540

  Jane Boleyn, Hampton Court, October 1540

  Katherine, Hampton Court, October 1540

  Jane Boleyn, Hampton Court, October 1540

  Anne, Richmond Palace, November 1540

  Jane Boleyn, Hampton Court, Christmas 1540

  Katherine, Hampton Court, Christmas 1540

  Jane Boleyn, Hampton Court, Christmas 1540

  Anne, Hampton Court, Christmas 1540

  Jane Boleyn, Hampton Court, New Year 1541

  Anne, Richmond Palace, February 1541

  Katherine, Hampton Court, March 1541

  Jane Boleyn, Hampton Court, March 1541

  Katherine, Hampton Court, March 1541

  Anne, Richmond Palace, March 1541

  Jane Boleyn, Hampton Court, April 1541

  Katherine, Hampton Court, April 1541

  Jane Boleyn, Hampton Court, April 1541

  Anne, Richmond Palace, April 1541

  Jane Boleyn, Hampton Court, April 1541

  Katherine, Hampton Court, April 1541

  Anne, Richmond Palace, May 1541

  Jane Boleyn, Hampton Court, June 1541

  Anne, Richmond Palace, June 1541

  Jane Boleyn, Hampton Court, July 1541

  Katherine, Lincoln Castle, August 1541

  Jane Boleyn, Pontefract Castle, August 1541

  Anne, Richmond Palace, September 1541

  Katherine, King’s Manor, York, September 1541

  Jane Boleyn, Ampthill, October 1541

  Anne, Richmond Palace, November 1541

  Katherine, Hampton Court, Novemb