On 2 May, 1536, in an act unprecedented in English history, Anne Boleyn, Henry V
III's second wife, was imprisoned in the Tower of London. On 15 May, she was tri
ed and found guilty of high treason and executed just four days later. Mystery s
urrounds the circumstances leading up to her arrest - did Henry VIII instruct Th
omas Cromwell to fabricate evidence to get rid of her so that he could marry Jan
e Seymour? Did Cromwell, for reasons of his own, construct a case against Anne a
nd her faction, and then present compelling evidence before the King? Or was Ann
e, in fact, as guilty as charged? Never before has there been a book devoted ent
irely to Anne Boleyn's fall; now in Alison Weir's richly researched and impressi
vely detailed portrait, we have a compelling story of the last days of history's
most charismatic, controversial and tragic heroines.
