In Bed with Anne Boleyn by Lacey Baldwin-Smith
Thomas Cromwell, the king's Principal Secretary, Mark Smeaton, court songster and musician, and Henry VIII are all caught up in Anne Boleyn's catastrophic fall from power and grisly death. Anne is the supreme opposite of the king's first wife, Katherine, who dutifully washed her husband's shirts, never complained about his lovers, and rarely expressed an opinion but concealed behind a mantle of piousness the pride of a Spaniard.In contrast, Anne Boleyn possesses only two attributes that help her secure a crown - extraordinary perseverance and almost indecent ambition. Her other qualities - her nagging determination to have her own way, her cruelty and her dangerous lack of decorum - all spell disaster that no amount of sex appeal can avoid. The very steps she takes to save herself from her inability to supply the king with a male heir seal her fate. This is historical fiction wedded to historical reality at its best.
'A master storyteller' DEBORAH HARKNESS 'Any new book by Lacey Baldwin Smith is an event' JOHN KENYON, THE OBSERVER PRAISE FOR LACEY BALDWIN SMITH: CATHERINE HOWARD 'Beautifully written' Suzannah Lipscomb, BBC History Magazine 'Brilliant.. essential reading for anyone interested in Tudor history' Alison Weir HENRY VIII 'A supremely satisfying book' The Observer 'Witty and brilliant' The Irish Times
Lacey Baldwin Smith was a Professor Emeritus of History at Northwestern University and had published many books on the Tudor era. The recipient of MA and PhD degrees from Princeton University, he had been a Fulbright Scholar, a Guggenheim Fellow, a Senior Fulbright Fellow at the University of London and a Senior Fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities and is Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781445634470 |
| ISBN 10 | 1445634473 |
| Title | In Bed with Anne Boleyn |
| Author | Lacey Baldwin Smith |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Amberley Publishing |
| Year published | 2014-07-15 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
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