6/4/2023 0 Comments Laura andersen the boleyn king![]() ![]() I had to look up my Tudor history several times while reading this book just to keep the characters straight. And the brutal debacle of Lady Jane Gray never takes place. The real teenage King Edward VI is never born because Henry never married his mother, Jane Seymour. Anne Boleyn survives, although her character has only a minor role. Given this premise, Anne Boleyn is not beheaded, and her son William becomes a king known as Henry IX. Andersen’s book is alternate history, a respected sub-category of science fiction. She’s been compared to Alison Weir, but Weir’s Plantagenet novels about the princes in the tower and Eleanor of Aquitaine are real history. Ultimately, her child became Queen Elizabeth I.īut what if Anne had borne a male child as well? How would events have played out differently? This is the conceit of The Boleyn King, a first novel by Laura Andersen. Unable to produce a male heir and accused of adultery, Anne was beheaded along with members of her family. In reality, Anne Boleyn bore a female child to King Henry VIII. ![]() ![]() This alternate history novel takes us back to Tudor England’s royal family in the mid-sixteenth century. ![]()
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