The Six Wives of Henry VIII

by Alison Weir

But this would be abdicating some of the responsibilities of an historian, whose function is to piece together the surviving evidence and arrive at a workable conclusion.

Anne did not respond, but when, at five o’clock, the barge was rowed through the Court Gate – not the Traitors’ Gate, as has traditionally been asserted – she was almost at breaking-point, and as she entered the grim fortress, her self-control gave way. At