CONTENTS Title Page Dedication Family Trees The Parkers The Boleyns The Howards Note on Units of Currency P The Hand of Fate, 1511 ROLOGUE: THE EARLY YEARS 1 Childhood 2 All That Glisters 3 Château Vert 4 A Suitable Match 5 For Better, for Worse WOMAN IN THE SHADOWS 6 Kindness Captures a King 7 The Falcon’s Rise 8 Lady-in-Waiting 9 The Sweat 10 Fortune’s Wheel 11 Almost There A WOMAN OF IMPORTANCE 12 Soaring with the Falcon 13 The Falcon Crowned 14 Long May We Reign 15 Birth of a Niece 16 The Boleyns Rampan THE WINDS OF CHANGE 17 The King’s Displeasure 18 Happy Families 19 The Final Flourish 20 The Wheel Turns 21 The Edge of the Precipice 22 Death of the Falcon CARVING A CAREER 23 Taking Stock Photo Insert One Photo Insert Two 24 A New Beginning 25 A Prince at Last 26 The Bitterness of Death 27 A Woman of Property 28 A Question of Trust THE PATH TO THE BLOCK 29 The King’s Jewel 30 In the Maidens’ Chamber 31 “That Bawd, the Lady Jane Rochford” 32 Royal Justice E History Finds a Scapegoat PILOGUE: Acknowledgments Appendix: The Likeness of Jane Boleyn References and Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Illustration Credits About the Author Copyright In Memory of My Parents