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| 44 | <p align="center"><b><FONT size=+1>Letter from Anne Boleyn to King Henry VIII<br> late
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| 45 | summer 1526</FONT> </b> </p>
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| 46 | <p><FONT size=-1><b>Background </b> <br></FONT>
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| 47 | <IMG height=194 alt="Queen Anne Boleyn"
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| 48 | src="_httpdocimg_/anne2.jpg" width=139 align=left><FONT size=-1>Seventeen of
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| 49 | Henry VIII's famous love letters to Anne Boleyn exist; they can be viewed at
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| 50 | the Vatican Library.&nbsp; However, only one of Anne's love letters to the
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| 51 | king has survived.&nbsp; It is undated, but its contents place it in late
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| 52 | summer/early autumn of 1526.&nbsp; How?&nbsp; She thanks the king for
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| 53 | personally appointing her a maid of honor to his queen, Katharine of Aragon,
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| 54 | but also - and more importantly - she acknowledges the king's serious
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| 55 | declaration of love for her.&nbsp; As students of Anne's life know, this
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| 56 | subtle but vital shift in their relationship occurred in summer 1526.&nbsp; We
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| 57 | also know that she returned to court as a maid of honor to Katharine of Aragon
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| 58 | at the same time.&nbsp; Interestingly, this letter reveals that Anne owed her
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| 59 | position at court entirely to the king's favor.</FONT> </p>
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| 60 | <p><FONT size=-1>This
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| 61 | is believed to be the first love letter Anne wrote to Henry, and is rarely
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| 62 | included in any biography of the queen.&nbsp; However, its authenticity is not
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| 63 | in serious doubt.</FONT> </p>
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| 64 | <p><FONT size=-1>One should remember that Henry's
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| 65 | brief relationship with Anne's sister, Mary Boleyn, had only ended a year
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| 66 | before (in July 1525.)&nbsp; On 4 March 1526, Mary gave birth to a son called
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| 67 | Henry, widely assumed to be the king's son.&nbsp; Anne's feelings about this
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| 68 | awkward situation were never made clear, but she was not close to her
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| 69 | sister.</FONT> </p>
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| 70 | <p><FONT size=-1>Please note that Anne spelt her surname
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| 71 | 'Bulen' in this letter.&nbsp; This is the third variation of the name I've found.</FONT> </p>
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| 72 | <hr>
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| 73 | <p>Sire, <BR>It belongs only to the august mind of a great king, to
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| 74 | whom Nature has given a heart full of generosity towards the sex, to repay
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| 75 | by favors so extraordinary an artless and short conversation with a
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| 76 | girl.&nbsp; Inexhaustible as is the treasury of your majesty's bounties, I
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| 77 | pray you to consider that it cannot be sufficient to your generosity; for,
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| 78 | if you recompense so slight a conversation by gifts so great, what will you
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| 79 | be able to do for those who are ready to consecrate their entire obedience
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| 80 | to your desires?&nbsp; How great soever may be the bounties I have received,
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| 81 | the joy that I feel in being loved by a king whom I adore, and to whom I
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| 82 | would with pleasure make a sacrifice of my heart, if fortune had rendered it
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| 83 | worthy of being offered to him, will ever be infinitely greater. <BR>The
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| 84 | warrant of maid of honor to the queen induces me to think that your majesty
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| 85 | has some regard for me, since it gives me means of seeing you oftener, and
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| 86 | of assuring you by my own lips (which I shall do on the first opportunity)
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| 87 | that I am, <BR>Your majesty's very obliged and very obedient servant,
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| 88 | without any reserve, <BR>Anne Bulen.</p>
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