The handwritten prayer book love notes sent by Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn before they married reveal the intensity of the king’s passion for his future wife.
From a piece in the Daily Mail...
Henry VIII is thought to have begun his pursuit of Miss Boleyn in 1526 but she proved reluctant to yield to his attempts to seduce her as she did not want to simply become a mistress in the way her sister Mary had.
The year before the notes were said to have been written the king had unsuccessfully tried to have his marriage to Catherine of Aragon annulled by the pope in 1527.
He finally married Anne Boleyn in 1533 but she was executed three years later.
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