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author, Richmond upon Thames, England, July 31, 2010.
     
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1. Maxwell 1997, 279.
2. Plaidy 1986, 1.
3. Robin Maxwell, interview with author, telephone, Lexington, KY, August 19, 2011.
4. Gregory 2007, 655.
5. Reaves 2008.
6. “Philippa Gregory watches as her bestseller ‘The Other Boleyn Girl’ gets the Hollywood treatment,” 2008.
7. Rich 2008.
8. Purdon 2009.
9. Hilary Mantel, interview with author, e-mail, Lexington, KY, October 5, 2011.
10. Robin Maxwell, interview with author, telephone, Lexington, KY, August 19, 2011.
11. Michael Hirst, interview with author, telephone, Lexington, KY, April 28, 2011.
12. Hanks 2007.
13. Jones 2011. But this is nothing new. In the acclaimed PBS series on Henry as well as in Anne of the Thousand Days, Anne is never seen reading a book, let alone conversing with Henry—as the actual Anne often did—about the religious debates of the day. Her role in Henry’s break from Rome is purely as the tantalizing object of his desire, his history-launching Helen, for whom he was willing to defy the pope, suffer excommunication, have old friends such as More executed, and create a poisonous schism in his kingdom. One of the innovations of The Tudors is its break with this convention, largely due to the intervention of Natalie Dormer.
14. Carbone 2008.
15. Stephenson 2010.
16. Driscoll 2008.
17. Flynn n.d.
18. Passafuime 2008.
19. Russell n.d.
20. Reed 2008.
21. Alexander 2008.
22. Rocchi 2008.
23. Gregory, Washington Post , 2008.
24. Ibid.
25. Ibid.
26. Gregory 2003, 668.
27. Gregory, Washington Post , 2008.
28. Gregory, Telegraph , 2008.
29. Ibid.
30. Alison Weir: “It really annoys me when historical novelists present themselves—or are publicized—as reliable historians when they know only the outline of a story and have no real understanding of the period or the social setting.” (Alison Weir, interview with author, e-mail, Lexington, KY, August 24, 2011.) David Loades: “What is important is that the author should be honest and not claim a historical basis that does not, in fact, exist. It would have been safer if Philippa Gregory had claimed to be writing fiction, because that is what she was doing.” (David Loades, interview with author, e-mail, Lexington, KY, August 29, 2011.)
31. Margaret George, interview with author, e-mail, Lexington, KY, August 15, 2011.
32. “My Cromwell,” she writes, “shakes hands with the Cromwell of the Book of Martyrs , and with the trickster Cromwell of the truly awful but funny Elizabethan play about him. I am conscious of all his later, if fugitive, incarnations in fiction and drama. I am conscious on every page of hard choices to be made, and I make sure I never believe my own story.” (Hilary Mantel, interview with author, e-mail, Lexington, KY, October 5, 2011.)
33. Mantel 2012, 409.
34. Philippa Gregory official website n.d.
35. Kosman 2008.
36. Ibid.
37. Gareth Russell, October 10, 2011, comment on The Creation of Anne Boleyn Facebook page, accessed October 15, 2011, www.facebook.com/thecreationofanneboleyn .
38. Katherine Stinson, October 10, 2011, comment on The Creation of Anne Boleyn Facebook page, accessed October 15, 2011, www.facebook.com/thecreationofanneboleyn .
39. Michael, February 28, 2011, comment on “What are the differences between history and historical fiction?” accessed March 21, 2011. http://www.philippagregory.com/debates/what-are-the-differences-between-history-and-historical-fiction .
40. Gregory 2005, 241.
41. Ibid.
42. Hanks 2007.
43. Margaret George, interview with author, e-mail, Lexington, KY, August 15, 2011.
44. Marche 2011.
45. Hilary Mantel, interview with author, e-mail, Lexington, KY, October 2011.
46. Ibid.
47. Weir 1991, 3.
48. Ibid., 173.
49. Ibid., 3.
50. Weir 2010, 150.
51. Raz 2010.
52. Ibid.
53. Pascual de Gayangos (editor), “Spain: May 1536, 16–31,” Calendar of State Papers, Spain , Volume 5, Part 2: 1536–1538, British History Online,