Editing Anne Boleyn (section)

=== Struggle for a son ===
After her coronation, Anne settled into a quiet routine at the King's favourite residence, [[Greenwich Palace]], to prepare for the birth of her baby. The child was a girl, born slightly prematurely on 7{{nbsp}}September 1533.<ref>{{harvnb|Ives|2004|p=170}}</ref> She was christened Elizabeth, probably in honour of either Anne's mother [[Elizabeth Boleyn, Countess of Wiltshire|Elizabeth Howard]] or Henry's mother [[Elizabeth of York]], or both.<ref>{{harvnb|Williams|1971|pp=128–131}}.</ref> The birth of a girl was a heavy blow to her parents, who had confidently expected a boy. All but one of the royal physicians and astrologers had predicted a son and the French king had been asked to stand as his godfather. Now the prepared letters announcing the birth of a ''prince'' had an ''s'' hastily added to them to read ''princes[s]'' and the traditional jousting tournament for the birth of an heir was cancelled.<ref>{{harvnb|Starkey|2003|p=508}}.</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/letters-papers-hen8/vol6/pp449-466 |title=1112. Letter from Chapuys to Emperor Charles V, dated 10 Sept. 1533 |series='''Henry VIII: September 1533, 1–10''': pp. 449–466 in Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 6, 1533, (HMSO, London, 1882). |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150526055127/https://www.british-history.ac.uk/letters-papers-hen8/vol6/pp449-466 |archive-date=26 May 2015 |url-status=live |quote=[On] Sunday last, the eve of Our Lady (7 Sept.), about 3 p.m., the king's mistress (''amie'') was delivered of a daughter, to the great regret both of him and the lady, and to the great reproach of the physicians, astrologers, sorcerers, and sorceresses, who affirmed that it would be a male child. |website=[[British History Online]]}}</ref>
[[File:The Palace of Placentia.jpg|thumb|left|Greenwich Palace, also known as the [[Palace of Placentia]], after a 17th-century drawing]]

The infant princess was given a splendid christening, but Anne feared that Catherine's daughter [[Mary I of England|Mary]], now stripped of her title of princess and labelled a [[Bastard (law of England and Wales)|bastard]], posed a threat to Elizabeth's position. Henry soothed his wife's fears by separating Mary from her many servants and sending her to live at [[Hatfield House]], where Elizabeth would also reside with her own sizeable staff of servants as the country air was thought better for the baby's health.<ref>{{harvnb|Starkey|2003|p=512}}.</ref> Anne frequently visited her daughter at Hatfield and other residences.<ref>{{harvnb|Somerset|1997|pp=5–6}}.</ref>

The new queen had a larger staff of servants than Catherine. There were more than 250 servants to tend to her personal needs, from priests to stable boys, and more than 60 maids-of-honour who served her and accompanied her to social events.{{Citation needed|date=November 2021}} She also employed several priests to act as her [[Confession (religion)|confessors]], chaplains and religious advisers. One of these was [[Matthew Parker]], who became one of the chief architects of [[Anglican]] thought during the reign of Anne's daughter, [[Elizabeth I]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://parker.stanford.edu/parker/actions/page.do?forward=about_parker |title=About Matthew Parker & The Parker Library |website=ParkerWeb.Stanford.edu |access-date=27 November 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150910000309/https://parker.stanford.edu/parker/actions/page.do?forward=about_parker |archive-date=10 September 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref>