How old was anne boleyn when she died

Anne Boleyn – now more than four hundred years since her death – is it really possible to gain a sense of the woman who woke the lion within Henry VIII, the lion that More so rightly feared – the same lion that one day ripped Anne Boleyn’s own life to shreds? Can we get behind the mask Anne Boleyn represented to the world? Seen in her own times in so many guises: a goggled eyed whore, a witch, the “scandal of Christendom,” a woman of ‘stout heart, ’ a sainted martyr, like all of us, Anne Boleyn demonstrates the true complexity of the human spirit.

Years ago, I read Eric Ives’ “Anne Boleyn.” Regarding it then as the best and most complete biography of Anne Boleyn ever written, the book remains on my bookshelf, as one of my most treasured Tudor reference books. When I heard of the release of Professor Ives’ major work, I assumed it a re-release of the original; I couldn’t imagine how Ives could improve on his pivotal, tho Elizabeth i!