Publisher's Synopsis
The true story of Anne Boleyn including her biological connection to the current Queen of England Elizabeth II. Anne Boleyn's complete life from her days as a teenager in the Flemish and French Courts to her rise as Henry VIII's second wife and Queen to her beheading at the Tower of London at age thirty-five. Includes her family's history from her great-grandfather's death at Bosworth with Richard III and her grandfather's imprisonment in the Tower of London. Her parent's scandalous marriage. Anne's teenage years at the Flemish and French Courts with Margaret of Austria and the future Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and his sisters. Anne's life in the French Court where she met Leonardo da Vinci and Diane du Poitiers while she served as a lady-in-waiting to both French Queens Mary Tudor and Claude I. Her return to England where she nearly married her cousin, James Butler, a future Irish Earl and caused a scandal at court with her love affair with Henry Percy, the future Duke of Northumberland. Her sister's affair with the French King Francis I and the English King Henry VIII. Mary Boleyn's illegitimate children with King Henry. Henry VIII's infatuation with Anne including his love letters to her. Anne's battle with Katherine of Aragon, Cardinal Wolsey, the Pope and the Roman Catholic Church to become Queen. The birth of her daughter, Elizabeth I, and her unfortunate miscarriages. Cromwell's betrayal which led to her beheading on May 19, 1536.
