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This book is all about desire and power – Henry’s desire for Anne Boleyn, and Boleyn’s desire for power in the form of the throne, and being crowned Queen. I found the first half of this book heavy going. But then the separation of Henry VIII from Catherine of Aragon was heavy going. An administrative and political nightmare that went on for six years – wonderfully documented here by Marie Louise Bruce - but a bit of a grind to read about. You can skip all the shenanigans and just get the bare bones here.....http://tudorhistory.org/wives/As a young girl Boleyn got a wonderful education in how to be an enchantress. Not for her a childhood spent in the cold corridors of British houses. Instead she spent most of her childhood and early teenage years in the royal court at France, where flirting and amorous affairs were common. “The King wished none of the gentlemen of his Court to be without mistresses, and thought they were strutting fops if they had none.”Her life in France was governed by two opposing cultures “a devout, almost monastic religious piety: and a rampant eroticism disguised by the gallant conventions of ‘courtly love’.”In 1536 a poet in the French court spoke of Anne’s attributes. She spoke the language fluently, he says, and was so “full of graces...you would never have thought her English...” When she came to England and joined the English royal court, she must have appeared to Henry as an exotic charmer. He was certainly charmed, and courted her with enthusiasm for six years, before eventually engineering the circumstances which enabled him to marry her. She was no pushover though, and besides those ‘graces’ she comes across also as moody, erratic , and prone to rages. In spite of these shortcomings she manipulated Henry’s affections with superb skill.Things would have been easier if Catherine of Aragon had been willing to relinquish her role of Queen, and accepted instead the proffered role of Princess Dowager of Wales. But she hung in there grimly, absolutely determined to remain Henry’s wife. After 20 years of marriage to Henry she was enormously popular with the people of England, and Boleyn was seen very much as the disliked and unwanted usurper. She was frequently booed and shouted at when she travelled. “On all sides the people of England loudly proclaimed their hatred of Anne. When the King took her on progress in July (1532) their route for four successive days was lined with women screaming abuse at Anne, making catcalls at her, and urging Henry to take back Catherine.”But Henry was utterly besotted with Boleyn, and when she eventually (after years of arms-length-provocation) gave in to his amorous yearnings, she became pregnant. This was very much part of her game-plan. The King was convinced she was going to have a boy, and more than anything he wanted a legitimate male heir. Suddenly he had to make their marriage happen, and with the help of Thomas Cromwell he did so. Thus was born the Church of England, shortly followed by a baby girl called Elizabeth, to a woman who was now his wife and queen.The King’s besottedness did not last long. Not only did Boleyn present Henry with a girl rather than a boy, but this was followed by a string of miscarriages. All too soon Henry found another object for his affection. A nameless mistress – but one to which Boleyn took great exception“Finally, a year and nine months since their marriage and eight years after his infatuation began, his love for her was dead....The situation was one that would probably have occurred sooner or later even had Anne produced a son. For ‘sporting with ladies’ was to Henry a way of life, feeding his vanity and romanticism.”Shortly afterwards the King met Jane Seymour, and his passions took a more serious turn. His capacity for turning against people he had loved was to prove truly astonishing. On 2nd May 1536 Boleyn was taken to the Tower of London on trumped up charges of adultery. This was a mere three years after he had married her. She was condemned not by public verdict, but by twenty-six peers, who all declared her guilty. Peers who were in the King’s thrall, putting his wishes over any semblance of truth.All five of Boleyn’s ‘adulters’ were simply beheaded, but for Boleyn herself Henry provided a swifter death. He ordered an executioner to come from France and behead her with a sword. The deed was done on 19th May 1536. “On receiving the welcome news of his wife’s death, King Henry dressed himself in white for mourning, took his barge and went to spend the day in her house on the river with Jane Seymour......” Eleven days after beheading Boleyn, Henry married Seymour.For me this book showed more than anything else the power of religion in the 16th century - all the intricacies of Henry’s separation from Catherine hinged on Biblical arguments, and the power of the Pope was phenomenal. The power of the King was huge too. As was the power of master manipulators like Cardinal Wolsley and Thomas Cromwell - although the success and failure of their careers and lives hung upon the King’s patronage and approval. The role of secular law in society seems to have been weak, and easily manipulated. I enjoyed the second half of this book more than the first, but only because I found the endless machinations behind the annulment of Henrys marriage to Catherine rather boring. Once Catherine was out of the picture everything went at a fast pace - with Henry hopping briskly from love to hate to execution.
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