Anne Boleyn examines the court career, queenship and fall of Henry VIII’s second wife. It traces her upbringing in continental courts, her relationship with the king and the prolonged campaign to annul his marriage to Catherine of Aragon, a crisis inseparable from the English Reformation.
The biography follows Anne’s coronation, the birth of Elizabeth, her patronage and the factional struggle that ended in charges of adultery and treason. It assesses the weak evidence behind her prosecution and the sharply different images of Anne created by Catholic, Protestant and modern writers.
