Hunting the Falcon - John Guy
Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn and the Marriage That Shook Europe
KORTE INHOUD
A groundbreaking examination of how the marriage of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn sent shockwaves across a continent and changed England forever.'A sumptuous drama of lust, intrigue and betrayal, underpinned by the harsh reality of politics' AMANDA FOREMAN'Better than Wolf Hall because it's all true' ANDREW ROBERTS'Much more than yet another Tudor history book' THE TIMES, 'THE BIGGEST BOOKS OF THE AUTUMN'The story of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn is one of the most remarkable in history: a long courtship followed by a shotgun wedding and then a coronation, ending just short of three years later when a husband's passion turned to such hatred that he simply wanted his wife gone. In Hunting the Falcon, John Guy and Julia Fox examine the most recent archival discoveries and peel back layers of historical myth to present Anne and Henry in startlingly new ways. They show how Anne and Henry's relationship was tied almost completely to the major events of international politics at one of the great turning points of Europea...
