Anne Boleyn

When Anne Boleyn came to court, Henry's first wife, Catherine of Aragon, was popular in spite of not participating in politics or in the life of the court for some time. All sons by Henry had died young and the King was concerned about having a male heir to his throne in order to preserve the monarchy and prevent civil war.

Boleyn debuted at court in a masquerade ball in March 1522, where he conducted an elaborate dance accompanying the king's younger sister, several ladies of the court and her sister Mary (then, mistress of King ). A few weeks after this performance, Boleyn was known as the woman of fashion and most important of the court and referred to her as "the mirror of fashion" (glass of fashion).

At that time courting Henry Percy, son of the Earl of Northumberland, about 1522. The exact nature of their relationship is unclear. Many novels and film adaptations have idealized the story describing how the young lovers consummated their marriage. However, it is worth noting that it would be impossible to keep his engagement, if it had been accomplished and several of his biographers have suggested that Anne had seen too many reputations ruined to risk hers. A Catholic priest, George Cavendish, who had disliked her but was friendly with Henry Percy, later stated categorically that they had never been lovers. This appears unlikely that their relationship was sexual.

The idyll was broken in 1523 when Lord Henry's father refused to support the compromise. One theory is that the link was broken in secret, Cardinal Wolsey, Henry's chief minister, because King wanted to Anne for himself. It is impossible to know precisely if this was so, and historians are divided. The evidence, statements made by the sister of Anne, Mary and her husband, Sir William Carey, indicates that Henry was then involved in an affair with Mary Boleyn.

According to George Cavendish, Anne briefly sent the court a rural farm family, but no one knows for how long. When the court again assembled a coterie of friends and admirers and became famous for his ability to keep men away. The poet Sir Thomas Wyatt, wrote about it in the poem Whoso List to Hunt, which described it as unaffordable and headstrong, despite appearing to be demure and quiet. In 1525, Henry VIII fell in love with her and started chase.

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TUDOR LONDON

Tudor London can be described as a prosperous, bustling city during the Tudor dynasty. In fact, the population increased from 75,000 inhabitants with Henry VII to 200,000 at the end of the 16th century.

The Tudor monarchs had a royal residence in London called Whitehall Palace and another in the countryside,called Hampton court , after Cardinal Wolsey gave it to Henry VIII.These Tudor kings and queens used what are now famous parks , such as Hyde Park or St. James's Park , as Royal Hunting forests.

Not many Tudor buildings survive today, mostly because of The Great Fire , which happened in 1666. Besides, , the 13 religious houses in London were __ converted for private use or pulled down for building materials____ after the Dissolution of the monasteries, which was Henry VIII's most decisive step against the power of the church in 1538. First the small, less powerful houses had their property confiscated and their buildings blighted (made unsuitable for use). They were followed the next year by the large houses.

Philosophical concepts of the power of the king over church may have played a part in Henry's decision to suppress the monasteries, but so did greed. The monasteries were rich, and a lot of that wealth found its way directly or indirectly to the royal treasury. Some of the monastery buildings were sold to wealthy gentry for use as country estates. Many others became sources of cheap building materials for local inhabitants. One of the results of the Dissolution of the Monasteries is that those who bought the old monastic lands were inclined to support Henry in his break with Rome, purely from self interest.

Apart from that, the theatres were banned from the city by the city authorities or guilds because plays wasted workmen's time ( so it wasn't for religious objection to the play's contents ). Then, they were built in the Southwark, where now a reconstruction of the Globe can be visited to learn about Tudor theatre.

At that time, London's financial rival was the city of Amsterdam, and to be able to compete with it , an international exchange was created in 1566.

(It was founded by the mercer Thomas Gresham in 1566 to enable London to compete for financial power with Amsterdam. This became the Royal Exchange in 1560, and is now housed in a massive Victorian building beside the Bank of England Museum in Mansion House Square.)

So, all in all, and because of many other events and facts, we can say that both London and England were powerful.