The Obedience of the Christian Man

As Henry's bitter divorce battle with Catherine rumbled on, Anne took a tactical step back from the limelight. When Catherine pleads her case to Rome instead of this court in England, Anne is the one who gives the king all of the ingredients he needs to pursue his break with Rome. Walsey has failed. In fact, all of the king's ministers have failed. And it is Anne who provides a solution. She places heretical texts into the king's hands. These are texts that have been burned by Walsey. The lives of those who own them are threatened to.