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“Besides, they well know that the love of the King for the Lady is so great that he would not give her up for the eldest daughter of France, or anyone else in the world.” – Eustace Chapuys, 1530

“The Pope told him that he heard by the last letters from France that the king of England is so passionately in love with the woman whom he wishes to marry, that, having some difference with her, he summoned certain of her relations, and implored them with tears to make peace.” –  Cardinal Muxetula to Charles V, January 1531

“I never saw the King merrier than he is now.” John Russell, 1st Earl of Bedford, in August 1533 (Gentleman of the Privy Chamber to Henry VII in 1507 and to his son and successor Henry VIII in 1509)

“In late October 1533 Anne’s maids of honour were repeating Henry’s brazen remark that he loved the queen so much that he would beg alms from door to door rather than give her up. ” – Eric Ives

“I desire your pardon that I may continue to be your true beadsman, and that gracious lady Queen Anne’s, the which hath the name to be as mediatrix betwixt Your Grace and high justice.” – John Musarde, to Henry VIII, 1534

“You, a man of your age and with such experience, are miserably burning with passion for the love of a girl. This woman, pleasing to the one by whom she appeared to be so ardently loved, desired to be joined to you by an indissoluble bond. She desired to remain with you perpetually. And to this passionate longing you responded mutually. In fact you actively surpassed her, so that you thought it would be the greatest achievement of your fortunes, the height of happiness, if your legitimate and just wife was cast out of your marriage and it were permitted [for] you to be united with this woman in matrimony and to live with her for ever.” – Reginald Pole to Henry VIII, 1535