Much mystery surrounds Anne Boelyn. More mysterious still is the nature of her role in one of the most turbulent times in British history. henry, who wrote her impassioned love letters and composed songs in her praise, honoured her as no other woman before, and finally defied the Pope in order to marry her. Her enemies at the time believed she owed her success to witchcraft, and indeed she bore two 'devil's marks'.
But was she, in fact, only a hapless pawn, subject to the passions of a notoriously mercurial aristocrat? Why was her fall from favour so sudden and complete? Henry's love turned to a hatred so vicious that he conspired with his chief minister to have her accused of adultery with five men- on her own brother. Four of them went to the block protesting her innocence and their own.
