![]() ![]() Eric Ives explores what is known of her and attempts to separate the wheat from the chaff. She was bold, ambitious and hot-tempered, yet she was a patron of the arts as well as of the nascent English Reformation.Ī lot of what has been written about her is coloured by conjecture, misinterpretation or popular legend, not to mention the personal agendas of the contemporary observers and later chroniclers. ![]() To some she was a witch and to others a martyr of Protestantism. Her beauty was not really above average-in fact she was said by some to be blemished and deformed-yet she impressed many, and not only the king, with her culture, charm and wit. Despite all that has been written about her, in many ways, the life of this complex woman is still a mystery. It chronicles her beginnings, her first days at court, her long wooing by the king, her rise to the crown, her sudden fall from grace and her execution. This is a biography of Anne Boleyn, the second wife of Henry VIII. ![]()
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