Lonely and desperate to return to court, Anne is delighted when Thomas Wyatt visits her at Hever Castle, and their friendship deepens.Īfter more than a year passes, Anne is finally called back to court. When their engagement is revealed, Percy is forbidden to marry Anne, and she is exiled to the Boleyn’s country estate. In order to secure her own future, she agrees to a secret betrothal with another courtier, Henry Percy, even going so far as to seal the deal with her virginity in a clumsy, awkward encounter that she regrets immediately. With Wyatt’s instruction on the ways of flirting, proper dress and behavior, Anne is pleased when she gains the attention she seeks.īut the already-married Wyatt cannot keep Anne from being forced to marry James Butler.
While Anne refuses to actually engage in an affair with Wyatt, she allows him to mislead others into believing the two are physically involved. Men will want her and the women will, perhaps begrudgingly, allow her entry into their tight inner circle. He vows that if she follows his directions, he can make her the darling of King Henry’s court.
When known womanizer and court poet Thomas Wyatt approaches Anne, she is surprised by his proposition. And whenever King Henry VIII enters the room, Anne’s world begins to hum, her fascination with the handsome king bordering on obsession. She’s horrified by the prospect of marrying the boorish James Butler, an arrangement that will serve her family’s political ambitions but leave Anne to a hellish life in the wilds of Ireland. The women openly mock her odd French ways of acting and dressing, and her inability to think before she speaks often gets her into trouble with the men. Young Anne Boleyn is the bullied outcast of King Henry VIII’s court. While Katherine Longshore’s Tarnish does a decent job supposing the events of a gap in the real Anne Boleyn’s history, her inability to deviate too far from the eventual reality creates a few problems in the delivery of the fictional story. Writing a fictional account of an actual historical figure is a tricky business, especially when your heroine is the most famous queen ever to be beheaded – Anne Boleyn.
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