When Anne receives him, Percy swears his undying love for her. Lord Rochefort persuades Anne to meet Lord Percy. Just as he is about to do so, Anne and her brother Lord Rochefort enter the room, obliging Smeaton to hide so as not to be seen. Fearful that it could be discovered on his person, thus revealing his love for Anne, Smeaton resolves to return the stolen medallion to the queen's chamber unnoticed. Some time previously, he had therefore stolen a medallion bearing Anne's portrait from her chamber. However, Mark Smeaton, Anne's page, is also in love with the queen. The king hopes that the love between the two of them will be rekindled, and that this will enable him to accuse Anne of adultery. He orders the former to return to the court from exile abroad, and arranges an apparently chance meeting between Lord Percy and Anne Boleyn. The king knows about Lord Percy's earlier love affair with Anne, but is unaware of their secret marriage. Henry VIII therefore resolves that Anne Boleyn will have to die. Although Jane reciprocates the king's feelings, but refuses to give in to his entreaties: only if the king marries her will she be willing to surrender herself to him. Henry VIII has now secretly fallen in love with Jane Seymour, one of Anne's ladies-in-waiting. Although she is now queen, she is nevertheless unhappy.

Anne's desire to wear a crown herself made her oblivious to her original love. Anne once secretly married him in a transport of joy, but left Lord Percy when Henry VIII made her a proposal of marriage. Sadly she recalls her first experience of true love with Lord Richard Percy. Anne Boleyn has been neglected by her husband, the English King Henry VIII.

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