I feel like things could have cut off there and we wouldn’t have missed much, especially if we’re continuing the story through the next two wives anyway. However, I found the book a bit tedious in places, particularly once she is divorced and time begins to skip ahead.
However, given that she’s primarily known for being divorced by the King and escaping with her life and good fortune, but the situation would likely have tainted her and made her unattractive to most diplomatic marriage partners, I found it kind of nice to imagine the possibility that she did have a bit of happiness. I found myself taken aback at first by the revelation of the “secret” Anna, as she’s called here, carries. But I was intrigued by this Six Wives fiction series, and while I didn’t like that she showed her infamous bias in the one for Anne Boleyn and didn’t have much interest in the Jane Seymour one, she did a good, if tried-and-true portrayal of Catherine of Aragon, and was curious which direction she would take Anne of Cleves.Īnd the portrayal is, by her own admission, controversial. Hardcover | $28.00 USD | ISBN-13: 978-1101966570 | 498 pages | Historical FictionĪlison Weir is a superstar in the world of Tudor history, known mostly for her nonfiction, but I’ve noticed her fiction tends to get more mixed reviews, and that is definitely the case with Anna of Kleve as well, as she straddles the line between the historical accuracy she’s known for and the sensationalism that made her peers like Philippa Gregory famous. Anna of Kleve: The Princess in the Portrait.
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