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119.] "Peace, then, to the ashes of unhappy Anne Boleyn! However, she was avenged too, avenged on her successor and rival, for whose sake she was made to mount the scaffold--avenged on Jane Seymour." "But she was the king's beloved wife," said Jane, "and when she died the king mourned for her two years." "He mourned!" exclaimed Lord Douglas, contemptuously.

"He has mourned for all his wives.

Even for Anne Boleyn he put on mourning, and in his white mourning apparel, the day after Anne's execution, he led Jane Seymour to the marriage altar! This outward mourning, what does it signify?
Anne Boleyn also mourned for Catharine of Aragon, whom she had pushed from the throne.

For eight weeks she was seen in yellow mourning on account of Henry's first wife; but Anne Boleyn was a shrewd woman, and she knew very well that the yellow mourning dress was exceedingly becoming to her." "But the king's mourning was not merely external," said Lady Jane.
"He mourned really, for it was two years before he resolved on a new marriage." Earl Douglas laughed.