- After princess Elisabeth's baptism, Henry orders Thomas Cromwell to draw up a bill of succession favoring his and Ann's offspring, to be accepted by an oath from all subjects. The affront to the imperialist party is maximized by making princess Mary a lowly lady in waiting to her half-sister, yet the French King still refuses openly to recognize the new Queen. Ann orders her rival lady Eleanor Luke eliminated, by false charges of jewel theft. Tired of Henry's schismatic obstinacy, Pope Paul III makes the loyal, hence jailed bishop Fisher a cardinal, Henry orders his beheading. Thomas More can no longer support his entire family, yet answers Cromwell's questions with Henry's own pamphlet arguing for papal supremacy by divine right. At her father Thomas Boleyn's suggestion only an ambitious mistress is a problematic rival, Ann urges Margaret 'Madge' Sheldon to 'succeed' Eleanor. Thomas More refuses to take the oath as phrased, while accepting he succession, landing him in the Tower.—KGF Vissers
- Princess Elizabeth is baptized and the King decides that his first daughter, Lady Mary, is to live in the same house as the newborn. Knowing that many in his court do not support his marriage to Anne, the King proposes a new law that would make the children of his marriage to Anne the only legitimate heirs and require everyone to take an oath of loyalty to him as king and as head of the English Church. The Pope makes the jailed Bishop Fisher a Cardinal, challenging the King to torture or kill a prince of the Church. Sir Thomas More is facing financial difficulties in addition to issues around the oath of loyalty, which he refuses to take. He too is imprisoned. Queen Anne learns of the King's affair with Lady Eleanor Luke. A trumped up charge of theft forces her to leave Court. Queen Anne is soon pregnant again and her father suggests that the King should be allowed a mistress, though it should be one with little ambition.—garykmcd
- Henry asks the entire country to swear an oath recognizing the new royal succession, and jails Sir Thomas More for refusing to take it; Anne becomes pregnant again and schemes to control Henry's mistresses.
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