Although Anne Boleyn is perhaps the most engaging of Henry VIII"s Queens, but biographies usually concentrate on the period after she became a lady in waiting at Henry VIII"s court. This is the only book to tell the forgotten side of Anne early life and loves, written by the author of the best-selling Mary Boleyn: Henry VIII"s Favourite Mistress. For her he would divorce his wife of some twenty years standing, he would take on the might of the Roman Church and the Holy Roman Empire; he would even alienate his own people in order to win her favor and, eventually, her hand.But before Henry came into her life Anne Boleyn had already wandered down love"s winding path. She had learned its twists and turns during her youth spent at the courts of the Low Countries and France, where she had been sent as a result of her scandalous behavior with her father"s butler and chaplain. Here her education had been directed by two of the strongest women of the age - and one of the weakest.A well-loved area of English history, the Tudors have grown further in popularity due to the BBC TV show The Tudors whose the final 4th series has just run early in the spring reaching audiences of 3 million viewers in the UK and more in the USA.