The Boleyn Women: The Tudor Femmes Fatales Who Changed English History (38 page)

33. Princess Mary. Anne Boleyn, Lady Shelton, found her young charge a troublesome burden when she was appointed as her governess.

34. Catherine Howard, the queen whose indiscretions led Jane Boleyn to the block.

35. Traitor’s Gate. Anne Boleyn was taken to the Tower of London by water and reputedly passed through this gate.

36. The Tower of London. Anne Boleyn, her sister-in-law, Jane Boleyn, and daughter, Princess Elizabeth, were all imprisoned in the ancient fortress.

37. A memorial marking the supposed site of the scaffold on Tower Green where both Anne and Jane Boleyn died.

38. The Bishop’s Palace at Lincoln, where Jane Boleyn led Thomas Culpepper to a secret nocturnal meeting with the queen.

39. Mary Shelton. The daughter of Lady Shelton was a poet with remarkably modern views about love, becoming a mistress of Henry VIII in her youth.

40. Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, who was reputed to have been romantically involved with his friend, Mary Shelton.

41. Catherine Carey and her husband, Sir Francis Knollys, from their memorial at Rotherfield Greys in Oxfordshire.

42. The six daughters of Catherine Carey (and one daughterin-law). Lettice Knollys, the second daughter, is first in the line depicted at Rotherfield Greys.

43. Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, from his tomb in Warwick. Dudley was Elizabeth I’s greatest favourite, with speculation that the pair would marry.

44. Lettice Knollys from her tomb in Warwick. Lettice’s royal cousin never forgave her for secretly marrying Robert Dudley.

45. Robert Dudley, the only child of Lettice Knollys’ second marriage, who died young.