The Concubine IV

Anne's baby is born in September 1533, after her marriage and coronation. ANd it is a girl. Emma is shaken. Her faith in God had convinced her that it was her duty to help the reform of the church and because of that she had encouraged Anne's relationship with Henry. She believed that it would lead to a Protestant male heir being born, and she is shocked to find that Anne has only produced another girl. She has connived at wrong doing, but she convinces herself that now that Anne is queen, she will have a male heir and she will have done the right thing in helping the marriage to go ahead. Anne becomes tense and often hysterical. She and Henry dont get on so well now and she realises that he has lost the intense love he had for her. He realises however that he has to grit his teeth and put up with Anne, as nobody wants another divorce. Emma tries to encourage Anne to be calmer and more pleasant, and she and Anne's ladies conceal from her the fact that the King is now flirting with Jane Seymour, another lady who is a Catholic. However Anne accidentally walks in on Henry kissing Jane and is furious. After a quarrel, they make up and he makes love to Anne again. She gets pregnant, but within a short time she has a miscarriage. Emma puts an idea in her head, that Henry might not be very good at breeding children.. and Anne decides to conceal the miscarriage, and to try to find another man to father a child on her. She arranges masked balls and has a few encounters with anonymous members of the court, but she still has the problem of how to conceal the fact that she is not as far along in pregnancy as she should be.