The Love Letters of Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn - Sources of the Love that Changed England Forever

Abstract

Starting from the manuscripts of the Love Letters of Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn, preserved at the Vatican Library, I give a transcription of the said letters. This study continues by analysing differences which were present in the modern editions of the same missives, and in setting them through the period in which they were written, i.e. late years 1520s. Consequently, I will set them from an historical point of view, taking into account the sources of information of that epoch, i.e. prevalently letters of the ambassadors present at the English Court. Following that, thanks to said primary sources, we will analyse the love story of Henry VIII with his second wife, trying to find a possible explanation at her catastrophic end. New views of their bond were also present in this essay.