Summary: By Kara Race-Moore Read by Shawn Robertson Autumn, 1528, Hertfordshire, Hinxworth All of London, all of England, and even onto the Continent, people were talking about the king’s mistress, the lady Anne Boleyn. Henry VIII was known for his love of women, much like his grandfather, Edward IV, so for him to take a new mistress was hardly news, even with the salacious twist that the lady was sister to one of his former mistresses. But, and here people would gasp with astonishment, it was said the lady had not yet let the besotted king into her bed! Lying in her own bed, the straw stuffed pallet both better and worse than other beds she had lain in over her long life, the little old women cackled at the gossip and said with wry knowledge, “That’s no way to serve a king.”
