It’s 1525. Elinor is lady-in-waiting to Queen Catherine. Anne Boleyn is also one of the Queen’s ladies until she attracts the eye of King Henry. Elinor watches and listens and writes down all she sees in her journal – a witness to Henry’s desire for a son that tore his family and his kingdom apart . . .
Summary from the back of the book
Date Started: 2/6/2024 – Date Finished: 02/06/2024
4 out of 5 stars
(Disclaimer: It is book geared towards children, but I want to own every book regarding Anne Boleyn so…. have to include the kid ones too! Also because it is a children’s book it has a less harsher scoring range as well.)
Firstly, not a super favorable view of Anne in this imagining. The main character is Elinor Valjean, and her diary starts out when she is eleven years old. It is not favorable towards Anne because Elinor is the daughter of one of Catherine’s ladies-in-waiting. So there is a born bias there. The book starts out pretty quickly aging the character up with the shorter entries of her much younger years. It shows her sympathies with Catherine through her wording and more attention to her then to Anne. There is of course some adult themes that are glossed over without any in depth explanation (childbirth, how to become with child ect) which is of course to be expected in a book towards younger children. I did enjoy this “blast from the past” as I had desperately wanted to read this as a child but they did not have it in our libraries. Would recommend for younger readers who are interested in The Tudors but are not quite ready for all that happens.
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