The Concubine A Story of Anne Boleyn Author:Norah Lofts Anne Boleyn - commoner, sixteen-year-old lady-in-waiting at the court of King Henry VIII, dark-haired slip of a girl not nearly as pretty as her own sister - hardly the face to move mountains, but for her the powerful monarch of sixteenth-century England was to remain celibate for nine long years, shed his queen, Catherine of Aragon, bastardize ... more »his one legitimate child, Mary, and destroy scores of men, including Sir Thomas Wolsey, his oldest and truest friend.
Norah Lofts has constructed this beautiful novel of Anne Boleyn's life - from her first acquaintance with Henry, through her coronation and ultimate execution - in a series of perfectly detailed miniatures, each one threaded onto the historical chain of events in the life of this girl whose marriage caused so much unhappiness to so many, not the least of them herself.« less