Mark Bostridge

‘Struck with the dart of love’: portrait of a marriage

Such was the emotion Anne Boleyn inspired in Henry VIII. But before long that scalding love had turned to a brutalising hatred of his second wife, culminating in her bloody beheading

Portrait of Anne Boleyn. [Getty Images]
  • Comments

  • Hunting the Falcon: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn and the Marriage That Shook Europe

    John Guy and Julia Fox

    Bloomsbury, pp. 624, £30

Already a subscriber? Log in

This article is for subscribers only

Get a free bottle of Johnnie Walker Black Label when you subscribe to The Spectator for just £12 in our Black Friday sale

  • Free bottle of Johnnie Walker Black Label whisky, worth £30
  • Unlimited access to our website and app
  • Enjoy Spectator newsletters and podcasts
  • Explore our online archive, going back to 1828

Read next

Trending

Douglas Murray

Britain’s failing statecraft

From the magazine
I mentioned some weeks ago that one of the great points of interest – not to say enjoyment – in our era will be seeing how Keir Starmer’s government copes with the incoming Donald Trump administration in Washington. It is fair to say that many Labour MPs, not to mention the mayor of London (who

More on Anne Boleyn

Also by Mark Bostridge

Latest

Comments

Black Friday sale: Get 10 weeks for just $1

Unlimited access to the The Spectator, online and via the app

Already a subscriber? Log in