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The recently dead
Anne Boleyn, Queen of England.
Her supposed lovers:
George Boleyn, Viscount Rochford, her brother.
Henry Norris, chief of the king’s privy chamber.
Francis Weston and William Brereton, gentlemen in the king’s circle.
Mark Smeaton, musician.
The Cromwell household
Thomas Cromwell, later Lord Cromwell, Secretary to the king, Lord Privy Seal, and Vicegerent in Spirituals: that is, the king’s deputy in the English church.
Gregory, his son, only surviving child of his marriage to Elizabeth Wyks.
Mercy Prior, his mother-in-law.
Rafe Sadler, his chief clerk, brought up within the family: later in the king’s household.
Helen, Rafe’s wife.
Richard Cromwell, his nephew, married to Frances Murfyn.
Thomas Avery, household accountant.
Thurston, chief cook.
Dick Purser, keeper of the guard dogs.
Jenneke, Cromwell’s daughter. (Invented character)
Christophe, a servant. (Invented character)
Mathew, a servant, formerly of Wolf Hall. (Invented character)
Bastings, the bargemaster. (Invented character)
The king’s family and household
Henry VIII.
Jane Seymour, his third wife.
Edward, her infant son, born 1537: heir to the throne.
Henry Fitzroy, Duke of Richmond: Henry’s illegitimate son by Elizabeth Blount; married to Mary Howard, daughter of the Duke of Norfolk.
Mary, Henry’s daughter by Katherine of Aragon: excluded from the succession after her parents’ marriage is declared invalid.
Elizabeth, Henry’s infant daughter by Anne Boleyn: excluded from the succession after his second marriage is declared