Book description
One of history's most complex and alluring women comes to life in
this classic novel by the
legendary Jean Plaidy.
Anne Boleyn was not beautiful but she was irresistible and captured
the hearts of kings and commoners alike. Daughter of an ambitious
country lord, Anne was taught to court and marry well and raise the
family's fortunes. She soon surpassed even their greatest
expectations. Although his queen was loving and loyal, King Henry VIII
swore he would put her aside and make Anne his wife. And so he did,
though the divorce would tear apart the English church and inflict
religious turmoil and bloodshed on his people for generations to come.
Loathed by the English people, who called her "the King's Great
Whore," Anne Boleyn was soon caught in the trap of her own
ambition. Political rivals surrounded her at court and, when she
failed to produce a much-desired male heir, they closed in, preying on
the king's well-known insecurity and volatile temper. Wrongfully
accused of adultery and incest, Anne found herself imprisoned in the
Tower of London, where she was at the mercy of her husband and of her enemies.
Jean Plaidy, one of the preeminent authors of historical fiction for
most of the twentieth century, is the pen name of the prolific English
author Eleanor Hibbert, also known as Victoria Holt. Jean Plaidy's
novels had sold more than 14 million copies worldwide by the time of her
death in 1993.
