e would rather starve as Queen, than be sumptuously clothed
and fed as Princess Dowager. Henry would give her anything she asked,
if she would acknowledge that she was not the Queen, nor her daughter
the Princess; but her bold resistance to his commands and wishes (p. 304)
brought out all the worst features of his character.[849] His anger
was not the worst the Queen and her daughter had to fear; he still
preserved a feeling of respect for Catherine and of affection for
Mary. "The King himself," writes Chapuys, "is not ill-natured; it is
this Anne who has put him in this perverse and wicked temper, and
alienates him from his former humanity."[850] The new Queen's jealous
malignity passed all bounds. She caused her aunt to be made governess
to Mary, and urged her to box her charge's ears; and she used every
effort to force the Princess to serve as a maid upon her little
half-sister, Elizabeth.[851]

[Footnote 849: _L. and P._, vi., 805, 1186.]

[Footnote 850: _Ibid._, vi., 351; vii., 171, 871;
_cf._ v., 216, where Chapuys says Anne hated the
Princess Mary more than she did Queen Catherine
because she saw that Henry had some affection for
Mary, and praised her in Anne's presence. At the
worst Henry's manners were generally polite; on one
occasion, writes Chapuys, "when the King was going
to mount his horse, the Princess went on to a
terrace at the top of the house to see him. The
King, either being told of it or by chance, turned
round, and seeing her on her knees with her hands
joined, bowed to her and put his hand to his hat.
Then all those present who had not dared to raise
their heads to look at her [surely they may not
have seen her] rejoiced at what the King had done,
and saluted her reverently with signs of good-will
and compassion" (_ibid._, vii., 83).]

[Footnote 851: _Ibid._, vii., 171.]

This humiliation was deeply resented by the people, who, says Chapuys,
though forbidden, on pain of their lives, to call Catherine Queen,
shouted it at the top of their voices.[852] "You cannot imagine," he
writes a few weeks later to Charles, "the great desire of all