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Mary Boleyn

the Mistress of Kings
PrimaGigi
Nov 30, 2011PrimaGigi rated this title 1 out of 5 stars
I will read anything about Elizabeth I/ Mary Queen Of Scots/The Tudors/Anne Boleyn. Which means I will (and have) read anything relatively related to the lives of the people they were related to and friends or associates with. I've read many the fictional books based on Mary and Henry's affair (even that factual mess that was The Other Boleyn Girl) This is a biography based on Mary Boleyn. You are made to believe you are getting to know her based upon very little evidence. A lot of the book is based on her sister Anne, her father's rise in the courts. We can now establish it wasn't Anne's rise that made him powerful, but that he was already a figure at court before that. Her mother is mentioned as a possible amour to the King Henry VIII. Things that were already speculated are in here. Weir spends more time debunking other authors' on their assumptions of Mary that you are left wondering still who Mary was and is to be such integral figure to her sister's ruin.