The epic tale of Henry VIII's feisty second wife.
Adulteress? Sorceress? Immoral Temptress? No English Queen has been so persistently vilified as Anne Boleyn. Even after her execution in May 1536 - on trumped-up charges of adultery - the...
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Farewell to my time and youth , spent to no purpose at all ! " “ By God , Anne , you are cruel ! " Henry protested . “ You know I will never forsake you . You are my whole life ! And you should know that I keep my promises !
Yet what do we know of the achievements and the legacy of her short reign? In The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn, Eric Ives provides the most detailed and convincing portrait we have of the queen.
This is an exciting and important book of Tudor history.
This is a book that has long been needed to set the record straight, and Bordo knocked it out of the park.
cried Mistress Marshall as she hammered the heavy wooden door of Madge's room. Cate opened the door and Mistress Marshall barged in looking much like an admiral in the royal navy. Madge pulled up the bedcovers to her chin.
Fisher was tried for treason at Westminster on 17 June 1535 and sentenced to death. Both Anne and Henry must have felt the sentence was vindicated when word reached them that Fisher had been made a cardinal by the new Pope, Paul III, ...
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Henry's intense passion for her, fed by her refusals, ignited a fire that tore the country apart. This book evaluates the history of how different England might have been had factors leading up to her execution not have happened.