🎧 Anne Boleyn’s Final Year
🎧 Not Just the Tudors • 1h 1m
Anne Boleyn’s reputation is buried beneath centuries of labels: home-wrecker, seductress, opportunist, witch, romantic victim, Protestant martyr, feminist. But a new look at the final year of Anne Boleyn’s life reveals a very human portrait of a brilliant, passionate and complex woman.
In this episode of Not Just the Tudors, Professor Suzannah Lipscomb talks toÂ
Natalie Grueninger, author of The Final Year of Anne Boleyn, about that last year of Anne’s life, its joys and its tragedies.Â
This episode was edited by Anisha Deva and produced by Rob Weinberg.
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