A review by 19paws
The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn by Alison Weir

4.0

This is the story of the last four months of Anne Boleyn’s life. Historian Alison Weir concludes that Anne Boleyn was not guilty of the charges of adultery (which is a view shared by most historians apparently) and that her downfall was masterminded by Cromwell (although Henry VIII seemed easily persuadable re: Anne’s guilt since he was already set to marry Jane Seymour). I did get bogged down in trying to keep all the names and relationships straight especially since everybody had both a name and a title and they were all cousins to everybody else (“Elizabeth, Countess of Worcester, the daughter of Sir Anthony Browne, was married to Henry, the second earl, the son of Charles Somerset, Earl of Worcester, an illegitimate descendant of the Beauforts and, through them, cousin to the King”) and often just gave up. But I still enjoyed this book and learned a ton. I'm sorry for Anne who, in the words of Weir, was clearly "framed."