![]() In reading it, the young queen discovers a great deal about her much-maligned mother: Anne's fierce determination, her hard-won knowledge about being a woman in a world ruled by despotic men, and her deep-seated love for the infant daughter taken from her shortly after her birth. At the beginning of Elizabeth 's reign, it is pressed into her hands. But unbeknownst to the king, Anne had kept a diary. ![]() While his passion for Anne was great enough to rock the foundation of England and of all Christendom, in the end he forsook her for another love, schemed against her, and ultimately had her sentenced to death. ![]() When Henry fell madly in love with her upon her return from an education at the lascivious French court, he was already a married man. Anne was the second of Henry's six wives, doomed to be beloved, betrayed, and beheaded. Yet until the discovery of the secret diary, Anne Boleyn and her daughter, Elizabeth I, had never really met. Both were passionate, headstrong women, loved and hated by Henry VIII. One was queen for a thousand days one for over forty years. ![]() Maxwell brings all of bloody Tudor England vividly to life” ( Publishers Weekly, starred review). Now available again, the first book in Robin Maxwell's acclaimed Elizabethan Quartet: "Wonderfully juicy. ![]()
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