19-22

    Chapter 19 begins with Anne and her group of friends having an archery tournament because the weather was wonderful. They were laughing and having fun when Nan approached them. She was upset because Cardinal Wolsey's men had stolen Anne's book. Anne knew this was going to happen so she wasn't surprised. She went straight to find the King and convince him to retrieve the book and even read it himself.
    Anne and king Henry had supper in her new apartment located in the Tiltyard Towers (she got moved there because there was an outbreak of measles). The towers were normally used for guests to watch jousts in comfort. They were waiting for Dr Foxe to return from visiting the Pope. When he arrived he told them that he got a decretal commission from the Pope and that they accepted the Kings request. Anne begins to really believe that fate has changed and that they would be married sooner than history tells. The chapter ends on an odd note by saying "little did they know it at the time, but the specter of death was fast approaching, casting its long shadow across the English people; it would devastate great swathes of the population with neither mercy, nor discrimination. This idyllic time was about to be wrenched away from me  in the most abrupt abs cruel way possible." (277). What???
     In chapter 21 Anne gets sick and the King was worried so he sent his own physician, Dr Butts, to take care of her. He prescribed the use of leeches to help her. That part made me grimace. When she got to feeling better the weather had cleared up too so she went riding with George, Margery, and Mary. When they came back they saw Elizabeth Boleyn who informed them that the sweating sickness had returned and that Bess caught it. Elizabeth told Mary and Margery to go to their homes and avoid the city. Anne freaked out and tried to go find Henry but she was informed that he had left without her. Henry took Katherine with him when he fled. Betrayed and abandoned, Anne questioned the Kings love for her. She called Henry names and even compared him to Daniel and Lord Percy.
    Chapter 22 begins with Anne having a nightmare and waking up to her mother crying in the next room. Her father is there and he tells her that George caught the sweating sickness. Modern Anne knows from history that she, George, and her father would all become ill but none of them would die. A few days later they buried Bess and left for Hever. Anne ignored the King and his letters asking about her health until she finally replied with a message accusing him of abandoning her and questioning his love. I found it funny that he completely ignored what she said in her letter and he mostly said that he's happy she's healthy and he misses her. "I realized that was filled with a sense of relief that the King and I remained perfect lovers." (291) No you haven't, all he did was completely disregard how you felt and what he did. Anyway, Anne caught the sweating sickness and passed out. I feel bad for Elizabeth Boleyn because her husband and two of her children catch the deadly disease and she doesn't have the knowledge that they will survive it.