![]() Robin Maxwell’s steamy romantic historical novel, The Secret Diary of Anne Boleyn, illuminates Anne’s later life.Īfter Anne was executed for treason, the King married Jane Seymour, his third wife. (A simplistic explanation, I know.) An excellent novel by the prolific Norah Lofts, The King’s Pleasure, tells the story of Catherine and her tragic attempts to produce an heir. ![]() Smitten with Anne Boleyn, Henry maneuvered a divorce from Catherine by creating the Church of England and breaking with the Pope, so he could remarry. Henry and his first wife, Catherine of Aragon, were married 24 years and though they had a daughter, Mary (later known as Bloody Mary) they failed to produce a male heir, which made the king nervous. ![]() The well-known mnemonic device above is meant to help us remember who was who on the chopping block. Most of us have a blurred idea of who these wives were and which ones were executed, though many readers know Anne Boleyn was one of them, thanks to Philippa Gregory’s The Other Boleyn Girland The Boleyn Inheritance. So much historical fiction relates to King Henry VIII in some way: his mother, his sister, his niece, his Church, his advisors, his children and his wives. ![]()
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