Monsieur Jean knows that you lived at the French court for many years. I am sure that he is well aware of the risks and will do everything to mitigate them if he agreed to take you into his house,” Henry appeased her, aiming to ease her concerns. Henry Percy looked at his beloved ex-fiancée’s face. Once more, their gazes locked. “Anne, you must stay calm and be prepared for a long journey.”
“I will do my best to be calm,” she said.
In an hour, Anne boarded the ship to Calais, fleeing England. Her heart was tearing apart in pain as she didn’t want to leave her children. However, she was forced to escape because she would have been dead otherwise. At least if she were alive, she would be able to know how her children were doing. She felt endless gratitude towards Henry Percy and to her father whom she hadn’t expected would want to save his own daughter.
Anne Boleyn was dead. She no longer existed in the physical world. Yet, she was alive, having regenerated in an utterly different image. It was as though Anne had embodied herself a dying-and-rising Goddess Persephone, who ruled the changes of the seasons and the eternal cycle of nature’s death and rebirth. Anne died and was reborn. It was the moment of her death and resurrection.
As Anne boarded the ship, the Earl of Northumberland was leaving Dover for London. He was very happy that Anne had been saved. He also hoped that he would somehow figure out how to prove Anne’s innocence and how to show the king it was Cromwell and, possibly, the Seymour family, who had engineered Anne’s downfall and her further imprisonment. Anne was the only woman whom he had ever loved. It didn’t matter for him that they had never been married and that she hadn’t loved him in return. He wanted to help Anne as much as it was possible.
In the meantime, Lady Eleanor and two guards from the Tower of London, who helped Henry Percy and Thomas Boleyn to save Anne, were traveling to Northumberland to the residence of their master. Their carriage bumped into another carriage, which resulted in the terrible clash between two carriages that were moving at a high speed. The carriage with Henry’s people lost its balance on the bumpy road and flopped over. The clash was so strong that all the servants died on impact.
The death of Henry Percy’s people, including Lady Eleanor, was a doleful, tragic event because these people had risked their lives to release Anne Boleyn from the prison. Yet, it meant that there were fewer witnesses left who could confirm what exactly had happened at the Tower on the day of Anne’s execution. Now only Thomas Boleyn and Henry Percy knew the truth about Anne’s survival and escape from England.
December 1536, Château de Fontainebleau, France
King François I of France and his elder sister Marguerite de Navarre, the Queen of Navarre and the wife of Henry II of Navarre, sat together in the so-called François I Gallery at the Château de Fontainebleau.
The gallery, with its frescoes framed in stucco by Rosso Fiorentino, was the first great decorated gallery built in France. The François I Gallery was a strictly private place, and François kept the key to it always with him.
The King of France often spent many hours here locked away from the problems of the outside world, together with his sister Marguerite or his maîtresse en titre Anne Jeanne de Pisseleu d’Heilly, Duchess d’Étampes. The gallery was built to link the king’s chamber to the gallery of the Trinitarian monks’ chapel or the chapel of La Trinité.
Located in the forest which had been the hunting preserve of the Capetian kings of France, the Château de Fontainebleau was the largest French royal château. It was the magnificent Italianate palace which combined in its design the Renaissance and the French architectural traditions.
In 1527, François invited the architect Gilles le Breton to start renovations on Fontainebleau. Gilles le Breton erected most of the
“I will do my best to be calm,” she said.
In an hour, Anne boarded the ship to Calais, fleeing England. Her heart was tearing apart in pain as she didn’t want to leave her children. However, she was forced to escape because she would have been dead otherwise. At least if she were alive, she would be able to know how her children were doing. She felt endless gratitude towards Henry Percy and to her father whom she hadn’t expected would want to save his own daughter.
Anne Boleyn was dead. She no longer existed in the physical world. Yet, she was alive, having regenerated in an utterly different image. It was as though Anne had embodied herself a dying-and-rising Goddess Persephone, who ruled the changes of the seasons and the eternal cycle of nature’s death and rebirth. Anne died and was reborn. It was the moment of her death and resurrection.
As Anne boarded the ship, the Earl of Northumberland was leaving Dover for London. He was very happy that Anne had been saved. He also hoped that he would somehow figure out how to prove Anne’s innocence and how to show the king it was Cromwell and, possibly, the Seymour family, who had engineered Anne’s downfall and her further imprisonment. Anne was the only woman whom he had ever loved. It didn’t matter for him that they had never been married and that she hadn’t loved him in return. He wanted to help Anne as much as it was possible.
In the meantime, Lady Eleanor and two guards from the Tower of London, who helped Henry Percy and Thomas Boleyn to save Anne, were traveling to Northumberland to the residence of their master. Their carriage bumped into another carriage, which resulted in the terrible clash between two carriages that were moving at a high speed. The carriage with Henry’s people lost its balance on the bumpy road and flopped over. The clash was so strong that all the servants died on impact.
The death of Henry Percy’s people, including Lady Eleanor, was a doleful, tragic event because these people had risked their lives to release Anne Boleyn from the prison. Yet, it meant that there were fewer witnesses left who could confirm what exactly had happened at the Tower on the day of Anne’s execution. Now only Thomas Boleyn and Henry Percy knew the truth about Anne’s survival and escape from England.
December 1536, Château de Fontainebleau, France
King François I of France and his elder sister Marguerite de Navarre, the Queen of Navarre and the wife of Henry II of Navarre, sat together in the so-called François I Gallery at the Château de Fontainebleau.
The gallery, with its frescoes framed in stucco by Rosso Fiorentino, was the first great decorated gallery built in France. The François I Gallery was a strictly private place, and François kept the key to it always with him.
The King of France often spent many hours here locked away from the problems of the outside world, together with his sister Marguerite or his maîtresse en titre Anne Jeanne de Pisseleu d’Heilly, Duchess d’Étampes. The gallery was built to link the king’s chamber to the gallery of the Trinitarian monks’ chapel or the chapel of La Trinité.
Located in the forest which had been the hunting preserve of the Capetian kings of France, the Château de Fontainebleau was the largest French royal château. It was the magnificent Italianate palace which combined in its design the Renaissance and the French architectural traditions.
In 1527, François invited the architect Gilles le Breton to start renovations on Fontainebleau. Gilles le Breton erected most of the
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