On 3rd July 1533, Catherine of Aragon’s chamberlain, Lord Mountjoy, was instructed to inform Catherine that she was to stop referring to herself as ‘Queen’ and to “satisfy herself with the name of Dowager, as prescribed によって the Act of Parliament, and must beware of the danger if she attempt to contravene it” because Anne Boleyn was now Queen.
The instructions from the King warned that “If she be not persuaded によって these arguments to avoid the King’s indignation, and relent from her vehement arrogancy, the King will be compelled to punish her servants, and withdraw her affection from...
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