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The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn
by Alison Weir
Wait, did I read this? I just read a sample chapter on the Kindle app for iPod Touch and have no recollection of reading it.
Well, now I have read it, and thumbs up. This is a fact-filled and (at times) exhaustive (in both senses of the word) close-up look at the last three months in the life of Anne Boleyn, Queen of England. Very readable and full of interesting information - and suggests that Cromwell was more involved and Henry VIII less so in the demise of Anne. (More political than personal, that is.)
Alison Weir takes on other historians and her own past works to try to correct and argue for this new and more definitive version of events. (Not that we will ever know the whole exact truth - documents in the historical record contradict each other and always will - but Weir tries hard to cite multiple sources and to suggest ideas based on conflicting information.
Well, now I have read it, and thumbs up. This is a fact-filled and (at times) exhaustive (in both senses of the word) close-up look at the last three months in the life of Anne Boleyn, Queen of England. Very readable and full of interesting information - and suggests that Cromwell was more involved and Henry VIII less so in the demise of Anne. (More political than personal, that is.)
Alison Weir takes on other historians and her own past works to try to correct and argue for this new and more definitive version of events. (Not that we will ever know the whole exact truth - documents in the historical record contradict each other and always will - but Weir tries hard to cite multiple sources and to suggest ideas based on conflicting information.