“Her German mother of the maids, Mother Lowe, had also left the country. First given the king’s permission to leave on 1 June, she had still been there in early July, when according to ambassador Harst she was then, extraordinarily, granted permission to depart by the king’s mistress, Katherine Howard. If Queen Anna had confided in anybody, Mother Lowe was likely the person, and one would think that her testimony for the annulment case would have been extremely useful. That she was expressly told to leave at just this time suggests that the English sought to have her out of the way so that she could not provide any detail counter to their assertions of non-consummation.”
— Nicola Clark, The Waiting Game

















