#nose holding at her husband's mercer blood~~ or what the fuck ever

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Hey!

I read in your tags about Elizabeth Boleyn's "mercenary" attitude towards everyone but her family, and a scene where Anne and her mother harassed Wolsey... Could you elaborate more about these 2 things? It sounds interesting... You always offer a different angle to the "well-known" Boleyn story.

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Oh, I mean I'm being a bit facetious, that is a portrayal I would like to see, it's based mostly on conjecture (the papal envoy was apparently afraid of both Anne and her parents, emphasis plural, which is interesting...) and Anne's own affection for her ("next to my own mother, no woman alive I love better"). I would just like to see her placed a bit more prominently in these moments, by her side when the gauntlet of "tell him he may come here, where the King is" is thrown.

The #girlbosslay moments wrt Wolsey, I just sort of get the feeling that she was involved in her daughter's power struggle/battle for influence with Wolsey, in her daughter's corner, she was in the barge for the journey soon after his fall from grace, and contemporary report places her along for the ride of overlooking all his inventory at York Place as well. Earlier on, in the context of Anne reprimanding him for having not sent her a message/update in quite some time, they both demanded some delicacies for their table from him, and there's a bit of an exasperated, put-upon tone about this from his gentleman usher:

Excuses his non-attendance upon Wolsey. Mr. Carre and Mr. Browne are absent, and there is none here but Norres and himself to attend the King in his bedchamber, or keep the pallet. Every afternoon when the weather is fair the King rides out hawking, or walks in the Park, not returning till late in the evening. Today, as the King was going to dinner, Mistress Anne spoke to Hennege, saying she was afraid Wolsey had forgotten her, as he sent her no token with Forest;—she thought that was the reason he did not come to her. Hennege told her that his message was of such importance that Wolsey had forgotten to send a token. Was requested by my Lady her mother to give her a morsel of tunny; she said she had spoken to Forest to ask Wolsey for it. Tonight the King sent him down with a dish to Mistress Anne (Boleyn) for her supper. She caused Hennege to sup with her, and wished she had some good meat from Wolsey, as carps, shrimps or other. "I beseech your Grace, pardon me that I am so bold to write unto your Grace hereof; it is the conceit and mind of a woman." Was ordered by the King to bid Forest remain here all night.