"All these revelations came toward the end of my research, and it was one excitement after another, basically - as far as an historian is concerned." "I was quite astonished," she tells NPR's Guy Raz. A history book written with all the intrigue and tension of a novel, Weir's just-published The Lady in the Tower is what the author calls "a forensic investigation" of the queen's last four monthsĪnd what the investigation turned up surprised Weir. It was in part the inexorability of that judgment that made historian Alison Weir want to take a closer look at Anne Boleyn's story. She was executed nonetheless, on and 11 days later the king married Jane Seymour, the third of his six wives. A few days before she was beheaded for plotting to kill her husband, King Henry VIII of England, the fallen queen stood before her accusers and essentially accused them of railroading her. Right up until the very end, Anne Boleyn professed her innocence.
The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn
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