View from Tower Hill looking down at The Tower of LondonĪfter having read Hilary Mantel’s richly detailed Bring Up the Bodies, depicting the downfall of the Boleyns from the perspective of Thomas Cromwell, I had a sudden hankering to get back to the stark, unadorned sources and facts about events. Tower Hill (The site of the other beheadings) The Memorial at The Tower for Anne Boleyn, Jane Grey, Catherine Howard, Margaret Pole and Lord Hastings. As I mentioned with Claire's last book The Anne Boleyn Collection: The Real Truth about the Tudors, even if you believe you are Tudored out or can't learn anything new, I believe Claire will teach you something you don't know.
She takes all angles and accounts and sorts them out to try to reveal the truth.
You would think people would want to compare all sides and learn what actually happened? Luckily, for us Claire has. Then we have Eustace Chapuys version (a man we know who was not on The Boleyn's side) and writers and some historians have taken these words as the truth. The author includes The Chronicle of Calais and The Spanish Chronicle's versions of the beheadings. Just like today, the press spins stories to manipulate the public and if people read it, they sadly believe it. Why was Anne Boleyn executed? Who was responsible for Anne Boleyn’s fall? Was Anne Boleyn’s execution a foregone conclusion, and was she framed?Ĭlaire Ridgway, creator of The Anne Boleyn Files website and best-selling author of The Anne Boleyn Collection, George Boleyn, and On This Day in Tudor History continues her mission to share the real truth about Anne Boleyn.If you want to learn about the actual happenings of this trial and time, this is the only book you need to read. Special features include mini biographies of those involved, a timeline of events, and full referencing. The Fall of Anne Boleyn: A Countdown is presented in a diary format, allowing listeners to dip in, look up a particular date, or listen from start to finish.
The coup against the Queen results in the brutal executions of six innocent people – Anne Boleyn herself, her brother, and four courtiers – and the rise of a new Queen.ĭrawing on 16th-century letters, eye witness accounts, and chronicles, Claire Ridgway leads the listener through the sequence of chilling events one day at a time, telling the true story of Anne Boleyn’s fall. During the spring of 1536 in Tudor England, events conspire to bring down Anne Boleyn, the Queen of England.
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