On 9th May 1536, seven days after the arrest of his second wife, Queen Anne Boleyn, King Henry VIII wrote to the man in charge of the investigation, Thomas Cromwell, requesting an update…
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So the sham continues, now the legal system of Tudor so called justice has the grand jury advise the sheriff of London to gather evidence so they can study it and come to their conclusion, and decide wether there is enough ‘evidence’ to charge a Queen of England and her co accused, no matter that they would do what the king commanded and that Anne was already doomed based on what little ‘evidence’ there already was, flirty remarks said in jest, a word a look, of course there was the foolish remark about dead men’s shoes, but no real hard evidence to accuse a queen of flagrant gross misconduct, the swordsman from Calais or St Omer could already have been informed of the king of Englands wish to behead his queen, Henry also wrote Cromwell a letter for the sake of his realm and his ‘ honour, one wonders how honourable he thought he was, and at court people were grim and must have spoken in hushed whispers, Eustace Chapyus the eyes and ears of the emperor wrote to his master how cheerful the king appeared and there were reports of a lady, in the streets of the capital the Londoners knew their queen was in The Tower and wondered what on earth was going on, Henry V111 did not much care for the masses, but he wished the world to know the legal process was being done properly, the following day of course the so called ‘evidence’ had been collected and plans were made for the trials to commence.
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