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Mary Boleyn

By: Alison Weir
Narrated by: Maggie Mash
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Mary Boleyn was the mistress of two kings, Francois I of France and Henry VIII of England, and sister to Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII’s second wife. In this astonishing and riveting biography, Alison Weir’s extensive research gives a new and detailed portrayal, in which she recounts that, contrary to popular belief, Mary was entirely undeserving of her posthumous notoriety as a great whore.

©2011 Alison Weir (P)2011 W F Howes Ltd Europe Great Britain Historical Renaissance England Royalty Tudor Middle Ages
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Alison books are always good. We'll written and researched. I guess my only issue, the same issue with many historical books is that much is supposition. Well narrated.

Great as always

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This is a very interesting listen and has been well researched. however sometimes too much information to be a relaxing listen.

such an interesting story

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Alison Weir never disappoints and Maggie Mash is a great narrator of her books; informative, interesting and well read!

A Great Read

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Alison Weir seems to have invested more of her ‘self’ in this book. She writes in the introduction that she had been researching this subject for decades and in places it feels as though she simply needed to unload.
There is far more speculation in this work than in most of her other purely historical writings: I get the impression that she must have tossed a coin this time to decide whether or not to produce her work as a historical novel, and it seems to me that it was an unlucky spin for both author and reader.
There is simply not enough bald fact to bring off her argument, which is, as ever, not quite that her subject may have been a saint or an innocent victim, but that she played a characteristically difficult hand like the independently-minded proto-feminist the author usually finds her subjects to have been.
This rather thin factual gruel is thickened - solidified at times - with screeds of genealogical stuff unlikely to endear the author to a generally admiring and appreciative reader.
Mary Boleyn may not have been a whore, but honestly after staggering through to the bitter end - who cares?

A biography ‘of our time’

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Enjoyable listen and informative but omg the narrator 😩. she has a lovely voice but wtaf were the weird voices she did when she quoted someone? so annoying

not a fan of tha narrator

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