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Thomas Cromwell's Letters from the Tower, June–July 1540
He had spent ten years deciding who went to the Tower. On the tenth of June 1540 he found out what it felt like from the other side. He already knew exactly what it meant.
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William Tyndale: Betrayed in Antwerp, Burned at Vilvoorde
He cried aloud for the Lord to open Henry VIII's eyes. Then they burned him.
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Honor Grenville, Viscountess Lisle: Seven Years of Survival in Calais
She sent Anne Boleyn a monkey. She sent Jane Seymour quails. She housed Anne of Cleves for a fortnight. She put her own daughter in the path of the king. None of it was kindness. All of it was survival. For seven years it worked. Then it didn't.
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Elizabeth Stafford and the Duke of Norfolk: A Decade of Letters, Then Testimony
She refused to leave. So he had her dragged out by the arms. She spent a decade writing letters that nobody acted on. Then the moment came, and she told them everything.
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Edward Stafford, Duke of Buckingham: The First Great Nobleman Henry VIII Destroyed
He was quite possibly richer than the king, older in blood than the king, and considerably more careful about saying so. He was not careful enough.
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Anne of Cleves: The Annulment of July 1540 and the King's Beloved Sister
The French Ambassador reported that Anne of Cleves had collapsed in terror when the men arrived and told her that her marriage no longer existed. The men sent to inform her said she took the news without any change of expression. She knew exactly what had happened to the wives who had fought him.
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Henry Percy: Anne Boleyn's First Love, Her Judge, and the Alleged Pre-Contract
He had been her first love. He sentenced her to death. Then his wife claimed he had confessed they were never truly married, because Anne had been his all along.
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Thomas Boleyn After the Fall: The Privy Seal Taken, 29 June 1536
His son was executed on Tower Hill. His daughter was executed two days later. She had been queen. On the twenty-ninth of June 1536 the king's men came for the seal.
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Henry, Duke of Cornwall: The Fifty-Two-Day Prince Whose Death Changed Tudor History
He lived for fifty-two days. In those fifty-two days he was the most important person in England. Everything that came after him was the consequence of his absence.
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Mary Tudor Signs Her Submission Unread, 22 June 1536
Thomas Cromwell wrote the document that called her a bastard. Mary Tudor signed it without reading a word.