Divorced, beheaded, survived an IRA attack: Tony Rennell reviews the most compelling history books of 2023
HISTORY Hunting the Falcon: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn And the Marriage that shook Europe by John Guy and Julia Fox (Bloomsbury £30, 624 pp) She was not one of the most beautiful women in the world. A contemporary Venetian diarist described Anne Boleyn as having ‘unusually dark skin, a long neck and a wide mouth’. … Read more