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] 
issue 09 September 2023
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  • Hunting the Falcon: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn and the Marriage That Shook Europe

    John Guy and Julia Fox

    Bloomsbury, pp. 624, £30

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