Richard Sampson

Dean of the Chapel Royal

The story so far…

Week 25: Master of Phantoms (Part 1/5)

Richard Sampson is steeped in the paperwork of Katherine’s annulment. He brings mule loads of folios to Cromwell to assist in Anne’s divorce. ‘Here is a pretty pickle,’ is all he can say. It is Sampson who suggests talking to Thomas Boleyn: ‘He’s a reasonable man… Get him to ask his daughter to go quietly. Save us all twenty years of grief.’

Week 49: Magnificence (Part 1/2)

At Bishop of Chichester, Sampson escorts Anna of Cleves to Greenwich and Blackheath.

At council: ‘The king being as he is, you took a gamble, Lord Comwell.’