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Anne Boleyn: A Private Life
A Private Life
1536 · Tower of London
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Anne Boleyn in the Tower
Begin with Anne where favor has already become mortal danger, and where intimacy, accusation, and abandonment can no longer be separated.
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I am writing in the spring of 1536, confined within the Tower of London, waiting to learn which morning they will come for me.
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