Novels Based on True Stories
You Won't Believe These Novels Are Inspired by True Stories
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Historical novelist Alison Weir has set the task of writing novels depicting all six Tudor queens, from Katherine of Aragon to Catherine Parr. But it's Anne Boleyn who has captured the public imagination, and it's her story in Anne Boleyn: A King's Obsession. Because so much of Tudor history is hard to find or was destroyed, many details of Anne's life and inner thoughts are lost to history. Weir constructs a portrait of the queen stereotyped as the "scheming" one to tell the story of a devout, intelligent woman whose downfall was the very man who was obsessed with possessing her.