J LHLS Archives: October 2007

Monday, October 22, 2007

The Other Boleyn Girl
by Phillipa Gregory
Published by Touchstone Books
A division of Simon & Schuster, 2003

Review by Ida Vega-Landow

Everybody knows about the six wives of Henry VIII, but not why old Henry got remarried so many times. The truth was, aside from needing a son and heir to perpetuate the Tudor Dynasty (which he got after he married #3, Jane Seymour, who died in childbirth), old Henry was just a horn dog. He needed women the way a junkie needs drugs. He thrived on attention and flattery, and who is better at that than a sweet young thing out to snare a rich husband? [more]

Posted by Ida Vega Landow @ 07:22 PM PST [Link]

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