The Real Anne Boleyn?
Anne Boleyn: Fatal Attractions
by G. W. Bernard
–Reviewed by Ralph Walter
Anne Boleyn is a woman of legends. She is the six-finger seductress that ruined Henry’s marriage to the “good queen” Catherine of Catholic myth. She is the French-trained (a pejorative in Tudor England) courtesan that destroyed the arch-Machiavellian Cardinal Thomas Wolsey. She is the protestant martyr that mothered England’s greatest monarch, Elizabeth I. She is the questionably fertile harpy that Thomas Cromwell swept away so King Henry VIII could marry for a third time. Anne is very much remembered as …
