The Boleyn Curse

Foreword

Sir George Throckmorton: ‘I told Your Grace I feared if ye did marry Queen Anne, your conscience would be more troubled at length, for it is thought that ye have meddled with the mother and the sister.’

Henry VIII is believed to have responded: ‘Never with the mother.’ (The record of the king’s reply is not explicitly documented within the deposition.)

— FROM THE ORIGINAL DEPOSITION WRITTEN BY SIR GEORGE THROCKMORTON, A RECORD OF HIS STATEMENT TO THE CROWN, HOUSED IN THE THROCKMORTON FAMILY PAPERS AT THE WARWICKSHIRE COUNTY RECORD OFFICE.