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Thursday, August 15, 2013

THE BOLEYN WOMEN

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

BUY THIS BOOK!


• Huge interest in the Boleyn family and wives of Henry VIII.
• First book to consider all of the female members of the Boleyn family.
• Covers eight generations of Boleyn women from the fourteenth century to 1603.

The Boleyn family appeared from nowhere at the end of the fourteenth century, moving from peasant to princess in only a few generations. The women of the family brought about its advancement, beginning with the heiresses Alice Bracton Boleyn, Anne Hoo Boleyn and Margaret Butler Boleyn who brought wealth and aristocratic connections. Then there was Elizabeth Howard Boleyn, who was rumored to have been the mistress of Henry VIII, along with her daughter Mary and niece Madge, who certainly were. Anne Boleyn became the king's second wife and her aunts, Lady Boleyn and Lady Shelton, helped bring her to the block. The infamous Jane Boleyn, the last of her generation, betrayed her husband before dying on the scaffold with Queen Catherine Howard.

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