"Far from the reformist evangelical heroine of the Protestant myth, he suggests that she was not a major player in bringing any form of Lutheranism to England, and points to a sermon from her almoner who made a plea for the preservation of church ritual. He suggests she was no theologian and did not lead the assault on the papacy but was more the passive beneficiary when Henry took the power of the pope and declared himself free of his first wife, Catherine of Aragon.
"This much will trouble those who like to see Anne as a heroine."
In the Los Angeles Times, Philippa Gregory reviews G.W. Bernard's Anne Boleyn: Fatal Attractions.
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