the lady in the tower the fall of anne boleyn

A few months before, Anne had her last miscarriage, unable to provide Henry the son that he so desired.

Weir begins her book with the May Day joust of 1536, when Henry VIII abruptly left Anne all alone. Her end was one of the most dramatic and shocking episodes in English history, her last days the best documented period of her life, vividly described in the sources, while the powerful image of her on the scaffold, courageously facing a horrible death, has overlaid all previous conceptions of her. In assessing Anne’s character and impact on history, we should ask ourselves how she would be viewed today if she had not perished on the scaffold. Her fall happened in May 1536, a month that changed everything, but how much of these charges are true? Did she indeed have these affairs? Did she plot to kill her husband? What is the truth behind her fall? These are the questions that Alison Weir try to answer in her book “The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn.” Anne Boleyn’s story ends in tragedy as she was accused of having multiple affairs, plotting the death of Henry VIII, and witchcraft, Anne was found guilty and was killed. Unfortunately, when Anne couldn’t give Henry the son he so desired, their love began to fade. Most of us know her story of how she fell in love with Henry VIII and how their relationship changed England forever as Henry broke off with Rome in order to get a divorce from his first wife Katherine of Aragon so that he could marry Anne.

Anne Boleyn, the second wife of Henry VIII and the mother of Elizabeth I.

The lady in the tower the fall of anne boleyn