Walsingham

Harry Norris names Walsingham as the far-off destination he once vowed to reach barefoot for Anne Boleyn, correcting his prior boast of trekking to China. This Norfolk village, famed for its ancient shrine to the Virgin Mary, pulls pilgrims across muddy lanes and windswept fields, its stone priory evoking solemn vows and blistered devotion. In the charged air of Queen’s Chambers at Hampton Court, the place sharpens Norris’s pledge of extreme loyalty into a symbol of sacrificed endurance amid courtly betrayals.