Anne Boleyn stood out at the English court because she had spent several years in Belgium and France at the most glittering courts in Europe.
Anne would learn from the leading women at the time, Margaret of Austria, Claude of France, Louise of Savoy and Marguerite of Angoulême, and she returned to England with something the English women didn’t have.
The Forgotten Years of Anne Boleyn: The Habsburg & Valois Courts by Sylvia Barbara Soberton takes the reader through Anne’s formative years. The author really manages to bring the courts of Margaret of Austria and the French to life, but information on Anne’s whereabouts is quite scarce. This means that the book sometimes feels like it’s not about Anne but about the courts alone.
Nevertheless, the information is well-researched, and I would still highly recommend this book as it fills in quite a blank spot in history.
The Forgotten Years of Anne Boleyn: The Habsburg & Valois Courts by Sylvia Barbara Soberton is available now in the UK and the US.
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