The Boleyn Inheritance. Philippa Gregory

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, November 1541

       Jane Boleyn, Hampton Court, November 1541

       Anne, Richmond Palace, November 1541

       Katherine, Syon Abbey, November 1541

       Jane Boleyn, the Tower of London, November 1541

       Anne, Richmond Palace, December 1541

       Katherine, Syon Abbey, Christmas 1541

       Jane Boleyn, the Tower of London, January 1542

       Anne, Richmond Palace, February 1542

       Jane Boleyn, the Tower of London, February 1542

       Katherine, Syon Abbey, February 1542

       Jane Boleyn, the Tower of London, 13 February 1542

       Five years later Anne, Hever Castle, January 1547

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       Jane Boleyn, Blickling Hall, Norfolk, July 1539

      It is hot today, the wind blows over the flat fields and marshes with the stink of the plague. In weather like this, if my husband were still with me, we would not be trapped in one place, watching a leaden dawn and a sunset of dull red; we would be travelling with the king’s court, on progress through the weald and downland of Hampshire and Sussex, the richest and most beautiful countryside in all of England, riding high on the hilly roads and looking out for the first sight of the sea. We would be out hunting every morning, dining under the thick canopy of the trees at midday and dancing in the great hall of some country house at night in the yellow light of flickering torches. We were friends with the greatest families in the land, we were the favourites of the king, kin to the queen. We were beloved; we were the Boleyns, the most beautiful, sophisticated family at the court. Nobody knew George without desiring him, nobody could resist Anne, everyone courted me as a passport to their attention. George was dazzling, dark-haired, dark-eyed and handsome, always mounted on the finest horses, always at the side of the queen. Anne was at the peak of her beauty and her wits, as alluring as dark honey. And I went everywhere with them.

      The two of them used to ride together, racing, neck and neck like lovers, and I could hear their laughter over the thudding of the hooves as they went flying by. Sometimes, when I saw them together, so rich, so young, so beautiful, I couldn’t tell which of them I loved more.

      All the court was besotted with the two of them, those dark Boleyn flirtatious