Falieri

Before the drama opens a brief description will not be out of place of the two persons who were to play the principal parts on the stage, as they were seen a year later by Ludovico Falieri, the Venetian ambassador in England.

On the King, Falieri is more elaborate.

At any rate, Falieri said that the King had determined to go on with the divorce, that he might have a legitimate male heir.

Falieri arrived in England in 1528, and the general parts of the Report cover the intervening period.

Falieri, writing from London and reporting what he heard in society, said that “by English law females were excluded from the throne.”