King Henry VIII & Queen Anne Boleyn: Love and Death
ISBN: 9781981890729
$9.99
*Includes pictures of Henry, Anne and important people, places, and events in their lives.
*Includes a Bibliography for further reading.
*Includes a Table of Contents
"We are, by the sufferance of God, King of England; and the Kings of England in times past never had any superior but God." – King Henry VIII
“To us [Anne Boleyn ] appears inconsistent—religious yet aggressive, calculating yet emotional, with the light touch of the courtier yet the strong grip of the politician—but is this what she was, or merely what we strain to see through the opacity of the evidence? As for her inner life, short of a miraculous cache of new material, we shall never really know. Yet what does come to us across the centuries is the impression of a person who is strangely appealing to the early twenty-first century: A woman in her own right—taken on her own terms in a man's world; a woman who mobilised her education, her style and her presence to outweigh the disadvantages of her sex; of only moderate good looks, but taking a court and a king by storm. Perhaps, in the end, it is Thomas Cromwell's assessment that comes nearest: intelligence, spirit and courage." – Eric Ives
*Includes a Bibliography for further reading.
*Includes a Table of Contents
"We are, by the sufferance of God, King of England; and the Kings of England in times past never had any superior but God." – King Henry VIII
“To us [Anne Boleyn ] appears inconsistent—religious yet aggressive, calculating yet emotional, with the light touch of the courtier yet the strong grip of the politician—but is this what she was, or merely what we strain to see through the opacity of the evidence? As for her inner life, short of a miraculous cache of new material, we shall never really know. Yet what does come to us across the centuries is the impression of a person who is strangely appealing to the early twenty-first century: A woman in her own right—taken on her own terms in a man's world; a woman who mobilised her education, her style and her presence to outweigh the disadvantages of her sex; of only moderate good looks, but taking a court and a king by storm. Perhaps, in the end, it is Thomas Cromwell's assessment that comes nearest: intelligence, spirit and courage." – Eric Ives