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8 | <title>Primary Sources: The first meeting of Anne of Cleves and Henry VIII and
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9 | their marriage, 1539-1540</title>
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31 | <td valign="top" width="48%" bgcolor="#FFFFE8"><font size=-1>The accounts
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32 | at right were written by the Spanish ambassador Eustace Chapuys.</font><p>
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33 | <font size="-1">Anne was Henry VIII's fourth wife. The marriage was
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34 | annulled after only a few months, primarily because the king did not find
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35 | her attractive. And he had already found an attractive replacement -
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36 | Catherine Howard.</font></p>
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37 | <p><font size=-1>Of particular interest is Henry's trick at their first
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38 | meeting and Anne's reaction, undoubtedly a humbling experience for the
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45 | <p><b>1539</b><br>This year on St John's Day, 27 December, Lady Anne, daughter of the
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46 | duke of Cleves in Germany, landed at Dover at 5 o'clock at night, and there
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47 | was honorably received by the duke of Suffolk and other great lords, and
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48 | so lodged in the castle. And on the following Monday she rode to
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49 | Canterbury where she was honorably received by the archbishop of Canterbury
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50 | and other great men, and lodged at the king's palace at St Austin's, and
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51 | there highly feasted. On Tuesday she came to Sittingbourne.
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52 | <p><b>1540</b><br>On New Year's Eve the duke of Norfolk with other knights and the barons
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53 | of the exchequer received her grace on the heath, two miles beyond Rochester,
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54 | and so brought her to the abbey of Rochester where she stayed that night
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55 | and all New Years Day. And on New Years Day in the afternoon the
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56 | king's grace with five of his privy chamber, being disguised with mottled
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57 | cloaks with hoods so that they should not be recognized, came secretly
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58 | to Rochester, and so went up into the chamber where the said Lady Anne
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59 | was looking out of a window to see the bull-baiting which was going on
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60 | in the courtyard, and suddenly he embraced and kissed her, and showed here
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61 | a token which the king had sent her for New Year's gift, and she being
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62 | abashed and not knowing who it was thanked him, and so he spoke with her.
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63 | But she regarded him little, but always looked out the window.... and when
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64 | the king saw that she took so little notice of his coming he went into
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65 | another chamber and took off his cloak and came in again in a coat of purple
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66 | velvet. And when the lords and knights saw his grace they did him
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67 | reverence.... and then her grace humbled herself lowly to the king's majesty,
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68 | and his grace saluted her again, and they talked together lovingly, and
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69 | afterwards he took her by the hand and led her to another chamber where
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70 | their graces amused themselves that night and on Friday until the afternoon.
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71 | <p>....So she came to Greenwich that night, and was received as queen.
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72 | And the next day, being Sunday, the king's grace kept a great court at
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73 | Greenwich, where his grace with the queen offered at mass, richly dressed.
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74 | And on Twelfth Night, which was Tuesday, the king's majesty was married
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75 | to the said queen Anne solemnly, in her closet at Greenwich, and his grace
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76 | and she went publicly in procession that day, she having a rich coronet
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77 | of stone and pearls set with rosemary on her hair, and a gown of rich cloth
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78 | of silver, richly hung with stones and pearls, with all her ladies and
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79 | gentlewomen following her, which was a goodly sight to behold.
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