How It All Goes Down
Winter 1522
- It's Christmastime in the court, and on every night of Christmas, Mary gives herself to Henry.
- Henry takes Mary to a shipyard to show her a half-built warship.
- Henry has a sketch made of Mary's face, but he won't say why.
- After Christmas, Anne discovers that a fortuneteller told Henry that Katherine would bear him a son.
- So Mary won't be seeing Henry for a while.
- Mary is upset, but Anne is too busy thinking about only herself.
- Anne has designs on marriage with Percy of Northumberland, who has been flirting with her for a while.
- Percy's a terrible poet, but Anne loves him anyway.