UNFAITHFUL: Henry and Anne as portrayed in the BBC’s The Tudors
IT’S a celebrity tale of love, marriage, affairs and betrayal, played out under the gaze of an adoring public.
But a new theory from a Southampton academic doesn’t feature popstars and footballers but members of the Tudor royal family.
Professor George Bernard claims Henry VIII’s second wife, Anne Boleyn, was probably guilty of adultery, contradicting the belief that Henry made up the charges so he could marry someone else.
In a new biography of the queen – who was beheaded for her crimes – the professor at the University of Southampton cites a 1545 poem as evidence she could have been guilty of the allegations.
The book, Anne Boleyn: Fatal Attractions, is to be published in April.
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