Riverside Retreat House near London

Mary Boleyn reveals Anne's craving for this quiet house on the river near London, a retreat from Hampton Court's pressures. Cromwell pounces, offering to procure it amid their tense grounds exchange, turning Anne's personal whim into leverage. Sun glints off the unseen Thames, willows sway along imagined banks, and the space evokes sanctuary—muffled court echoes yield to lapping water and fresh breezes, a prize in Cromwell's web of favors and ambitions.