Book description
On 2 May, 1536, in an act unprecedented in English history, Anne
Boleyn, Henry VIII's second wife, was imprisoned in the Tower of
London. On 15 May, she was tried and found guilty of high treason and
executed just four days later. Mystery surrounds the circumstances
leading up to her arrest - did Henry VIII instruct Thomas Cromwell to
fabricate evidence to get rid of her so that he could marry Jane
Seymour? Did Cromwell, for reasons of his own, construct a case
against Anne and her faction, and then present compelling evidence
before the King? Or was Anne, in fact, as guilty as charged?
Never before has there been a book devoted entirely to Anne Boleyn's
fall; now in Alison Weir's richly researched and impressively detailed
portrait, we have a compelling story of the last days of history's
most charismatic, controversial and tragic heroines.
Alison Weir was born in London and now resides in Surrey. Before
becoming a published author in 1989, she was a civil servant, then a
housewife and mother. From 1991 to 1997, whilst researching and writing
books, she ran a school for children with learning difficulties before
taking up writing full-time. Her fourteen history books include
The
Six Wives of Henry VIII
,
Lancaster and York, Children of England
,
Elizabeth
the Queen,
Eleanor of Aquitaine
,
Mary, Queen of Scots
,
Henry VIII: King and Court, Isabella,
Katherine Swynford
and, most recently
Lady in the Tower
. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
