Anne Boleyn was just a concubine in the
eyes of her opponents and she was slandered as a homewrecker; Katherine of Aragon was Henry VIII's true queen in their eyes.
The harem of the palace did house the Sultan's wives and concubines, but it typically also
housed all of the women of the palace, including his mother, sisters, aunts, and cousins.
Queen Catherine de' Medici resented her
husband's dalliances with his much older concubine, Diane de Poitiers.
The senator's
wife was indignant, barely containing her rage when she confronted her husband about the secret series of concubines that he had.