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HEIRS OF AMBITION THE MAKING OF THE BOLEYNS

f the two new biographies of Anne Boleyn and her family, Claire Martin's ‘is the more unorthodox of the, ‘a bold study of the Boleyn family which takes us from the first evidence of the name in the village of Salle, Norfolk, in 1283, through to the members of the family who bore witness to Anne's grisly end.’

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