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The Favor of Kings

by Mary Hastings BRADLEY (1882 - 1976)

Calumny

"Never have bright romance and black scandal been more attached to the name of lovely woman," writes a quaint and susceptible chronicler, " than to that of fair Anne Boleyn." Certainly no girl ever flashed so meteor-like above the satellites of an English court, and no woman ever went to her doom under more awful accusations. Since fiction could not be half so amazing as the facts of Anne Boleyn's story, I have kept this novel of her fortunes true to those facts, and have gone, for their knowledge, not only to the histories written of this period, but in many cases to the sources of those histories. My endeavor has been to reveal the actual characters and the actual situations, and to use as much of the real incident and dialogue as possible." (Summary from the Foreword))

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Listen next episodes of The Favor of Kings:
A Blow in the Dark , A Farewell to Greatness , A Letter and Two Songs , A Rival Flouted , A Royal Tête-À-Tête , A Tragic Farce , A Vision of a Crown , An Inopportune Event , Happiest of Women , Hope Deferred , In Hever Castle , Lady Anne Rochford , Rumors , Second Thoughts , The Cardinal's Enlightenment , The Child , The End , The Insult , The Last Card , The Law's Delays , The Marchioness of Pembroke , The Numbered Hours , The Pestilence , The Queen Speaks , The Tower , The Trial , The Writing on the Wall