The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn by Alison Weir Page B

the British Museum

Thomas Cromwell, “Master Secretary,” School of Hans Holbein the Younger, c. 1533, Indianapolis Museum of Art, The Clowes Fund Collection

Sir William FitzWilliam, painting by Hans Holbein the Younger, c. 1536–40, The Royal Collection © 2009 Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II

Elizabeth Browne, Countess of Worcester, Tomb effigy, St. Mary’s Church, Chepstow, photograph © Archie Miles/Collections Picture Library

Anne Boleyn, English School, c. 1580-1600, by kind permission of Ripon Cathedral Chapter

The Indictment against Anne Boleyn and Lord Rochford, The National Archives, Kew BK 8/9

Greenwich Palace, where Anne Boleyn was arrested, detail from “The Panorama of London” by Anthonis van den Wyngaerde, 1558, © Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford/The Bridgeman Art Library

Anne Boleyn says a final farewell to her daughter, the Princess Elizabeth, painting by Gustaf Wappers, 1838, Collection SHUNCK*, Heerlen, The Netherlands. Photograph Klaus Tummers, Heerlen

The Tower of London, painting by Michael van Meer,
Album Amicorum
, 1615, Edinburgh University Library, Special Collections, ms.La.III.283, fol.346v

Anne Boleyn at the Queen’s Stairs, painting by Edward Matthew Ward, 1871, Sunderland Museum and Winter Garden, Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums

Anne Boleyn in the Tower, detail, Edward Cibot, 1835, Museé Rolin, Autun, France/Bridgeman Art Library

Anne Boleyn, Lady Shelton, stained glass, St. Mary’s Church, Shelton, Norfolk, photograph by kind permission of Simon Knott www.suffolkchurches.co.uk

Sir Thomas Wyatt, painting by Hans Holbein the Younger, c. 1535, The Royal Collection © 2009 Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II

“To the King from the Lady in the Tower”: a disputed letter © British Library Board, Cotton Otho MS. C.X. f.232r

Westminster Hall, where four of Anne Boleyn’s co-accused were tried onMay 12 1536. Parliamentary copyright image reproduced with the permission of Parliament, photograph by Deryc Sands

Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland, painting by Francis Lindo, eighteenth century, collection of the Duke of Northumberland, photograph by Geremy Butler

Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, painting by Gerlach Flicke, 1546, National Portrait Gallery, London/The Bridgeman Art Library

Sir Francis Weston and his wife, Anne Pickering, carved heads from marriage chest, c. 1530, used by kind permission of Saffron Walden Museum, Essex, photographs © Saffron Walden Museum

“Weston Esq. of Sutton Surrey,” artist unknown, sixteenth century, the collection at Parham House, West Sussex

Anne Boleyn driven mad: a later, melodramatic image, painting by Alessandro Guardassoni, 1843, Instituzione Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Collezioni Storiche, Bologna, photograph by Mario Berardi

Carving from the Martin Tower, photograph © Mary Evans Picture Library

Anne Boleyn’s falcon badge, without its crown and sceptre, in the Beauchamp Tower, photograph © Historic Royal Palaces

The site of the Queen’s Lodgings in the Tower of London, photograph by Tracy Borman

Gold and enamel pendant, made c. 1520, Victoria & Albert Museum, photograph, anonymous loan/V&A Images

The site of the scaffold on which Anne Boleyn was executed, photograph by Tracy Borman

The execution of Anne Boleyn, illustration from John Foxe’s Acts and Monuments, seventeenth century

The Royal Chapel of St Peter ad Vincula, photograph by Tracy Borman

Inside St Peter ad Vincula, photograph © Historic Royal Palaces

Memorial plaque said to mark the last resting place of Anne Boleyn, photograph © Historic Royal Palaces

Carved initials of Henry VIII and Anne Bolyen, Hampton Court Palace, photograph © Angelo Hornak Albany

Queen Elizabeth I’s ring of
c.1575
, used by kind permission of The Trustees of the Chequers Estate/Mark Fiennes/The Bridgeman Art Library

GENEALOGICAL TABLE 1
The Tudors

GENEALOGICAL TABLE 2
The Boleyns

GENEALOGICAL TABLE 3
The
Fitz William Connections

PROLOGUE

CHAPTER 1

CHAPTER