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were joined in name only, Anne's ladies-in-waiting pressed her for details. "When he comes to bed, he kisses me and taketh me by the hand and biddeth me 'good-night, sweet heart' and in the morning kisses me and biddeth me, 'Farwell, darling," Anne recounted. "Is this not enough?"
Within six months of her marriage, Anne could have no doubt that this was in fact not enough - the king desired an annulment and Catherine Howard had come into view.
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Anne's Rivals
Catherine Howard: When precisely Henry VIII's eye fell on this teenaged maid-of-honor to Queen Anne is not known. By the summer of 1540, some several months after Henry's marriage to his fourth wife, the English merchant Richard Helles wrote that "the King's affections were alienated from the lady Anna to that young girl Katharine Howard." Anne's immediate reaction to her rival is not known. But even after her marriage had crumbled, the former Queen Anne would gladly play cards or dine with Henry and Queen Catherine Howard. (See Catherine Howard.)
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