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Listen to George Bernard in a radio discussion:
BBC Radio 3 Nightwaves
(Programme expires on 25th May 2010)

Special feature in The Guardian, read more:
"Anne Boleyn was guilty of adultery, new biography claims"
23 Feb 2010

In this groundbreaking new biography, G. W. Bernard offers a fresh portrait of one of England's most captivating queens. Through a wide-ranging forensic examination of sixteenth-century sources, Bernard reconsiders Boleyn's girlhood, her experience at the French court, the nature of her relationship with Henry, and the authenticity of her evangelical sympathies.

He depicts Anne Boleyn as a captivating, intelligent, and highly sexual woman whose attractions Henry resisted for years until marriage could ensure legitimacy for their offspring. He shows that it was Henry, not Anne, who developed the ideas that led to the break with Rome. And, most radically, he argues that the allegations of adultery that led to Anne's execution in the Tower could be close to the truth.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY:
 Read more about G. W. Bernard, professor of early modern history at Southampton University and editor of the English Historical Review. Also by G. W. Bernard and available from Yale The King's Reformation:  Henry VIII and the Remaking of the English Church.

SUBJECT CLASSIFICATIONS:
British & Irish history: c 1500 to c 1700
Biography & autobiography: royalty

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Illustrations: 16 black-&-white illustrations
Number of Pages: 288
Dewey: 942.052092