By Carolly Erickson
The unbelievable baby -- God's virgin -- "La plus high-quality femme du monde" -- "A very unusual kind of girl" -- "That accountable lady of britain" -- "A woman whom time had stunned"
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King Henry's attention was elsewhere, on the jousts he was organizing to celebrate the birth, on deciding on a name for the prince (either Edward or Henry, it was said), and on the august pronouncements of the physicians and astrologers he had assembled to reassure him about the child's health and sex. There was no doubt whatever, they concurred gravely, that the baby would be a strong, long-lived male. Then the pains began. The physicians took their places around the vast bed, their sharp instruments ready, the midwives put in position copper basins for catching the blood and rolls of linen for staunching it.
What if they called her Concubine, Whore, the Scandal of Christendom? She had borne their taunts for years. This day, this procession was her revenge. Today all the leading nobles and gentlewomen of the kingdom—including many who were her bitter enemies—were escorting Anne to the site of her coronation. Tomorrow at the coronation itself they would attend her, kneeling reverently before her to swear fealty. Only her haughty uncle the duke of Norfolk was absent— pardonably, as he was on a diplomatic mission in France.
As long as Katherine lived, Henry would hesitate to rid himself of Anne, for if he did he might be forced to return to his first wife. Then in November of 1535 Anne took heart again, and by December she was certain she was pregnant. " She began to breathe more easily, and to allow her expectations to rise. She was only twenty-eight, after all, younger by three years than Queen Katherine had been when she gave birth to Mary. Perhaps this time, if she was careful, she would carry her child to term.
