What an interesting account of the life of Anne Boleyn, especially coming from the first book of this series, Katherine of Aragon: The True Queen. Films portray her as an ambitious villain, but in Weir’s well-researched version she is so much more. A controversial character for sure, but also a true demonstration that people are rarely black and white.

The last days of Boleyn’s life was written especially well. I am still conflicted as to whether I should feel sympathy for someone who had led many others to similar ends and did things perhaps a wiser person would not, but there was also a lot of history to the events that led her to her demise - certainly more than what could simply be characterised as pure evil, promiscuous, heretic and whatever other terms oft used to describe her.