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Anne Boleyn

Queen of England, this character struggles to achieve and maintain power.

Mary Carey

Sometime mistress of the King of England, this character is sister to a queen.

Thomas Cromwell

Protagonist of the novel, this character emerges from obscurity into power.

Katherine of Aragon

Queen of England, this character is dispossessed.

Thomas More

Theologian and philosopher, this character is dispossessed.

Rafe Sadler

A clerk, this character is taken into the narrator’s household and employed to advantage therein.

Henry VIII Tudor

King of England, this character is a driving force in the novel.

Mary Tudor

Daughter of the King of England, this character is dispossessed.

Thomas Wolsey

A high-ranking churchman, this character is dispossessed.

Thomas Wyatt

Poet and courtier, this character was implicated in impropriety with a Queen of England.

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