The Concubine V

This part of the story is almost certainly not accurate. Anne would never have taken the risk of being unfaithful to Henry. In real life, her pregnancy went on till the end of January 1536 and then she lost the baby, after hearing that Henry had had a fall out jousting. In the book, she also loses the child, and Henry now decides he has to get rid of her. He does not want another drawn out divorce. So his ministers seek for an excuse to end the marriage. Anne has been flirtatious with other men, playing the game of Courtly love. And Mark Smeaton, her musician, is infatuated with her and he is questioned and tortured till he agrees that he had an affair with her. Anne is taken to the Tower and has ladies in waiting who spy on her. Emma manages to get permission to go to the Tower and stay with Anne. She finally realises that while she had a sincere interest in the new religion, she stayed as Anne's maid because she loved her. Anne and the men accused with her are tried and found guilty, and all are executed. No arrangements are made for her to be buried. Emma persuades Anne's cousins to help her to take the body to Norfolk where Anne was born and they make a plan to bring her to Norfolk to be buried under the name of Arnett. Emma begins to feel a revival of her religious beliefs as she makes the preparations.