The Lady In The Tower

<p><b>Never before has there been a book devoted entirely to Anne Boleyn's fall. Now Alison Weir's richly researched and impressively detailed portrait gives us the compelling story of the last days of history's most charismatic controversial and tragic heroines.</b><br><br>On 2 May 1536 in an act unprecedented in English history Anne Boleyn Henry VIII's second wife was imprisoned in the Tower of London. On 15 May she was tried and found guilty of high treason and executed just four days later. <br><br>Mystery surrounds the circumstances leading up to her arrest - did Henry VIII instruct Thomas Cromwell to fabricate evidence to get rid of her so that he could marry Jane Seymour? Did Cromwell for reasons of his own construct a case against Anne and her faction and then present compelling evidence before the King? Or was Anne in fact as guilty as charged?<br><br><b>In <i>The Lady in the Tower</i> Weir has constructed a gripping tale of betrayal and treason wrought with her trademark forensic research and penchant for an enthralling narrative.</b><br><br><b>'The perfect examination of Anne's downfall' <i>Independent </i></b></p>