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Anne Boleyn

A biography of the woman whose marriage to King Henry VIII of England resulted in an irreversible break between the Church of England and the Papacy, the birth of the future Queen Elizabeth I, and in her own beheading.

Subject
historybiography
Genre
historical fictiontudor
Themes
historyroyaltywomen
Setting
tudorenglandbritishfrance
Audience
adult
Length
short · 192 pages

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