Favor of Kings

Anne Boleyn arrived at the English court as a spark. A lady-in-waiting with a sharp tongue and an unreadable heart, she caught the eye of a king desperate for a son and willing to tear his kingdom from Rome to have her. What followed was meteoric: from modest courtier to queen, from Protestant sympathizer to the most powerful woman in England, mother of the future Elizabeth I. But Henry's ardor curdled into something more dangerous when no male heir arrived, and the same court that had raised her began to plot her destruction. Bradley reconstructs Anne's turbulent life with meticulous attention to the political and religious upheavals of Tudor England, capturing both the intoxicating heights of her ambition and the devastating vulnerability of a woman who made herself a target. The result is a portrait of female power at a royal court: dazzling, precarious, and ultimately tragic. For readers who crave the dangerous romance of court intrigue and the terrible price of ambition.