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Anne Boleyn a king's obsession : a novel

Henry VIII is risking his marriage and the political strategies of Cardinal Wolsey in his obsession to marry Anne Boleyn, who does not welcome the king's advances and loathes the cardinal for breaking her betrothal to Harry Percy.

Main Author:	Weir, Alison, 1951- (Author)
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Ballantine Books, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, [2017]
Edition:	First edition.
Series:	Six Tudor queens ; book 2.
Subjects:	Anne Boleyn, > Queen, consort of Henry VIII, King of England, > 1507-1536 > Fiction. Queens > Great Britain > Fiction. Great Britain > History > Tudors, 1485-1603 > Fiction. England > Court and courtiers > History > 16th century > Fiction. Great Britain > History > Henry VIII, 1509-1547 > Fiction. Biographical fiction > England. Historical fiction > England.

Summary:	Henry VIII is risking his marriage and the political strategies of Cardinal Wolsey in his obsession to marry Anne Boleyn, who does not welcome the king's advances and loathes the cardinal for breaking her betrothal to Harry Percy. Anne is barely a teenager when she is sent from her family's Hever Castle to serve at the royal court of the Netherlands. There, and later in France, Anne thrives. But her powerful family has ambitious plans for her future that override any wishes of her own. When the King of England himself, Henry VIII, asks Anne to be his mistress, she spurns his advances-- he is a married man who has already conducted an affair with her sister, Mary. This rejection only intensifies Henry's pursuit, tempting Anne even as it proves to be her undoing.
Physical Description:	541 pages : genealogical table ; 25 cm
ISBN:	9781101966518 1101966513
Author Notes:	Alison Weir was born in London, England on July 8, 1951. She received training to be a teacher with a concentration in history from the North Western Polytechnic. Before becoming a full-time writer, she worked as a civil servant and ran her own school for children with learning difficulties from 1991 to 1997. Her first book, Britain's Royal Families, was published in 1989. Her other books include The Six Wives of Henry VIII; Children of England; Eleanor of Aquitaine; Henry VIII: King and Court; Mary, Queen of Scots; and Isabella. Her first novel, Innocent Traitor, was published in 2006. Her other novels include The Lady Elizabeth, The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn, The Captive Queen, A Dangerous Inheritance, and Katherine of Aragon, the True Queen. (Bowker Author Biography)

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