Anne Boleyn: 500 Years of Lies

by Hayley Nolan

behold, here is a woman who had more foot-in-mouth moments than Bridget Jones. You’ll cheer for her. You’ll cry for her.

Yes, on the advice of Henry’s chief minister, Cardinal Wolsey, England and France were to settle their political differences with a marital alliance between Henry’s younger sister and the old and ailing King Louis XII of France.10 She was eighteen. He was fifty-two. I believe this is what they call ‘taking one for the team’.