Henry had fallen deeply in love with Lady Anne Boleyn, and desperately wanted to annul his marriage to Queen Katherine. She had not given him a son and heir, and Henry knew it had to be because she had lied about her purity after marrying his own brother. God was punishing him for marrying Arthur's widow. Katherine had not known Henry had fallen for Anne, only he had taken her sister Mary has a mistress. For once in their marriage he had kept an affair secret. Today Katherine's world was about to fall apart in more ways than one.

"Katherine, I do not believe you were a virgin when we married. You slept with my brother. You lied to me." Henry screamed at Katherine. "I want a divorce"

"Henry, please, I love you. I am your true wife in the eyes of God."

"You must accept this Katherine, I will be rid of you and the country will love the new Queen."

"New Queen...you have already chosen to remarry" Katherine began sobbing uncontrollably.

"Yes, and she is so sweet and pure. She is a true virgin." Katherine's mind began to race, who could he be talking about. She knew he was sleeping with Mary Boleyn, his only mistress. Did he have an alliance to marry another princess? Surely Chapuys would have heard and told her the news. No, he had a secret.

"Who is the whore?" Katherine spat in a brief moment of clarity.

"How dare you speak of Lady Anne in that manner. She is untouched by man, unlike you madam." Anne, no, he couldn't have been talking about Anne Boleyn.

"I will never let you marry her." Henry stared at her, through his anger he could see something strange in her eyes. Not hatred for Anne, but something else.

"I will marry her, and you will forfeit your rights as Queen."

"Not her, anyone but her." Katherine began to babble incoherently, as Henry tried to figure out why Katherine hated Anne so much. She had never heard one unkind word spoken about Anne from anyone on the Queen's household. The Queen adored her, maybe that was why she was upset.

"Katherine, this is over, she will be my wife."

"I won't let you marry my daughter." Katherine stunned herself as the long held secret emerged. Henry was speechless. Katherine just admitted she was not a virgin and claimed Anne was her own daughter.

Henry has dismissed Katherine, and summoned Sir Thomas Boleyn to his chambers. He would get to the bottom of this story Katherine created.

"Thomas, I have just been given information that is more disturbing." Thomas looked confused.

"Your majesty?"

"Is Anne your true daughter?" Thomas gulped, he hoped this day would never come. He didn't think Anne could have handled the news.

"No, your Majesty."

"Who are her parents, Thomas. Answer me." Charles Brandon tried his best to push up against the wall into the shadows afraid of what would be said.

"I do not know who her parents are, she was left with my wife and I by her brother Lord Norfolk. He had told us her parents had died, and she needed people to love her. We never told her that she wasn't our own blood."

"Charles, go get Lord Norfolk, NOW!" Charles was thankful to get to leave, but poor Thomas was stuck in the room with a very angry sovereign. Mere minutes past before Charles returned with Norfolk.

"Now, Norfolk, you will tell me the truth. Who are Anne Boleyn's parents? Do not lie to me."

Norfolk lowered his head, "Queen Katherine is her mother, but the father was not named. Katherine would not tell who she had slept with."

"Who told you that, sir?" Norfolk shook with fear for what he was about to say would damn him.

"Lady Margaret Beaufort, your grandmother, your Majesty. She brought the child to me after she was born, and told me nobody should ever know."

"Then how did Katherine know she was her daughter?"

"I do not know, I never told her, I kept the secret."

"And why would she be kept secret?"

"I was told because by Lady Margaret that Katherine was to be seen as pure, so you would marry her"

"Guards, take Lord Norfolk to the Tower." Thomas Howard was charged with treason, and Henry was left pondering what would he do. He loved Anne, but he wasn't sure how she would react to the news. But he knew his marriage to Katherine was over.

EDITORS NOTE : Yes I have other stories to work on, but this little plot bunny attacked me on the way home one day.
And I am debating on if Charles Brandon should be her father or not.