A Queen's Mother

THE LIFE OF ANNE BOLEYNe secret wedding with Anne, the legalization of the situation and so through the birth of Elizabeth, Anne's decline in favor and finally to her tragic end in the Tower of London.

Her family rose and fell with her. Her father, the Earl of Wiltshire, whose title was the reward of the combined ambitions of his daughter and himself, was "spared the ignominy of serving on the jury" that condemned her to death shortly after the like fate of her brother Rockfort, who had died for the most sufficient reason that Henry desired his definite removal.

Through the entire book Anne is sympathetically presented as a being of brains, beauty and unbounded ambition but primarily as a woman of faults and virtues, triumphs, mistakes and jealousies ; she never fails to appear entirely convincing and natural. Whatever the book's importance may be as a contribution to history it is undoubtedly an interesting one and contains many hours of enjoyment.