Susan Chapek’s Reviews > Hunting the Falcon: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, and the Marriage That Shook Europe > Status Update
Susan Chapek
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Finally! The struggle to keep sorted and remember all those names of ambassadors, ladies in waiting, titled folk, clergy, and politicos is paying off in fresh angles on the sudden and hasty discarding of Anne and her kin and her kind.
— Jan 24, 2025 07:20AM
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Susan Chapek
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"Here was a ruler, now in mid-life and with a binary view of the world, who saw only obedient subordinates or enemies to be defeated."
— Feb 11, 2025 12:01PM
Susan Chapek
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What's new to me in this book: Anne Boleyn's adolescent years spent in two European courts where the women she served (Margaret of Austria and Queen Claude of France) had much more agency/power/influence than Queen Katherine back home in Jolly Old. In short, Anne had a political education which must have been a large part of her motivation as Henry VIII began to take an interest in her. . . .
— Sep 28, 2024 06:51AM
