Came to serve Queen Cathernine when only 8. By 1518 she and the king were lovers and the following year she bore him a son. While Henry proudly accepted his son, he cast off Bessie, who wasn’t allowed back to court until after her marriage to Tailboys. After that, however, she and Tailboys received grants of money and land and faded into respectable obscurity. She raised six children with Tailboys.294