Whereas you send unto me (willing me to confess a truth, and so obtain your favour) by such an one, whom you know to be my ancient professed enemy. Henry then had no choice but to put his great matter into Wolsey's hands, who did all he could to secure a decision in Henry's favour, [70] even going so far as to convene an ecclesiastical court in England, with a special emissary, Lorenzo Campeggio, from Clement to decide the matter. Anne relented, sending Mary a magnificent golden cup and some money, but still refused to reinstate her position at court.

Henry, fearful the dispute could ignite civil war in Ireland, sought to resolve the matter by arranging an alliance between Piers's son, James and Anne Boleyn. At this time, Henry began paying court to one of Anne's maids-of-honour, Jane Seymour, and allegedly gave her a locket containing a portrait miniature of himself. In 1531 (two years before Henry's marriage to Anne), Catherine was banished from court and her rooms given to Anne.See Eric Ives's biography The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn for the most extensive arguments favouring 1500/1501 and Retha Warnicke's The Rise and Fall of Anne Boleyn for her proposal of 1507. Henry now required his subjects to swear an oath attached to the First Succession Act, which effectively rejected papal authority in legal matters and recognised Anne Boleyn as queen. In Ives's view, this would also be around the minimum age that a girl could be a maid of honour, as Anne was to the regent, [21] Margaret of Austria.

Mary’s father and her husband, however, did ascend to power, likely as a result of the king’s infatuation with Mary.Cavendish, Wolsey's chamberlain, records that the servants who waited on the king and Anne at dinner in 1529 in Grafton heard her say that the dishonour Wolsey had brought upon the realm would have cost any other Englishman his head. Anne's experience in France made her a devout Christian in the new tradition of Renaissance humanism. Henry also petitioned, in the event of his becoming free, a dispensation to contract a new marriage with any woman even in the first degree of affinity, whether the affinity was contracted by lawful or unlawful connection. Though all knowledge of Anne's experiences in the French court is conjecture, even Ives suggests that she was likely to have made the acquaintance of King Francis I's sister, Marguerite de Navarre, a patron of humanists and reformers.

Records show that her marriage to the soldier was a happy one and that she was cleared of any involvement with the rest of the Boleyns. Norris denied his guilt and swore that Queen Anne was innocent; one of the most damaging pieces of evidence against Norris was an overheard conversation with Anne at the end of April, where she accused him of coming often to her chambers not to pay court to her lady-in-waiting Madge Shelton but to herself.He made no serious attempt to save Anne's life, although some sources record that he had prepared her for death by hearing her last private confession of sins, in which she had stated her innocence before God. She ritually repeated this oath immediately before and after receiving the sacrament of the Eucharist. One is that she was secretly buried in Salle Church in Norfolk under a black slab near the tombs of her ancestors.

She spent lavish amounts of money on gowns, jewels, head-dresses, ostrich-feather fans, riding equipment, furniture and upholstery, maintaining the ostentatious display required by her status. The pope forbade Henry to contract a new marriage until a decision was reached in Rome, not in England.Anne arranged for Nicholas Bourbon, exiled from France for his support for religious reform, to be Henry's tutor there. This secret marriage to a man considered beneath her station angered King Henry VIII and her sister, Queen Anne, and resulted in Mary's banishment from the royal court. She was raised at Hever Castle, the Boleyn family home in Kent, and educated in both feminine subjects such as dancing, embroidery, and singing, and masculine subjects such as archery, falconry, and hunting. All but one of the royal physicians and astrologers had predicted a son and the French king had been asked to stand as his godfather.