Sion calls Anne an eel, he calls her a slippery dipper from the slime, and he remembers what the cardinal had called her: my serpentine enemy. Sion says, she goes to it with her brother; he says, what, her brother George? ‘Any brother she's got. Those kind keep it in the family. They do filthy French tricks, like —’‘Can you keep your voice down?’ He looks around, as if spies might be swimming by the boat.‘— and that's how she trusts herself she don't give in to Henry, because if she lets him do it and she gets a boy he's, thanks very much, now clear off, girl — so she's oh, Your Highness, I never could allow — because she knows that very night her brother's inside her, licking her up to the lungs, and then he's, excuse me, sister, what shall I do with this big package — she says, oh, don't distress yourself, my lord brother, shove it up the back entry, it'll come to no harm there. .Hilary Mantel
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It's not really the reaction of the people to Anne Boleyn that got her in trouble, it was what she did with it. When Sion mentions her brother, he is describing her secret tryst with Henry. The reaction of the people to this news is one of shock. They are shocked to learn that she can have sex with someone other than herself.
This is because they are shocked that any woman could want to have sex with another person rather than just herself. The reaction of the people when they learn this about Anne Boleyn was one filled with disgust and horror because they viewed her as a loose woman who was not worthy of being Queen. Henry's reaction, however, is one filled with lust and desire.
He is so amazed by the fact that he can have sex with both women in his life at once that he feels compelled to tell people about it. It is also worth noting that Sion tells George that he should "shove it up the back entry," meaning that he should fuck Anne's brother.
Source: Wolf Hall
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