Hello and welcome to the Renaissance English History Podcast, a member of the Agora Podcast Network.

I'm your host Heather Tesco, and I'm a storyteller who makes history accessible

because I believe it's a pathway to understanding who we are, our place in the universe,

and getting in touch with our own humanity.

This is episode 76, and I'm so pleased to have been able to talk with Alison Weir for the second

time about her upcoming book on Anne Boleyn called Anne Boleyn, A King's Obsession,

out in the U.S. on May 16th and the UK on May 18th. You can get links to buy the books

and learn more at Englandcast.com, where you can also sign up for my newsletter, which gets you

extra mini-casts, exclusive content like free online courses from time to time, and other fun stuff.

So let me introduce Alison Weir to you if you have been living under a rock and don't know her.

Alison Weir is the New York Times bestselling author of the novels Catherine of Aragon,

The True Queen, The Marriage Game, a Dangerous Inheritance, Captive Queen, the Lady

Elizabeth, an Innocent Trader, and numerous historical biographies, including the Lost

Tudor Princess, Elizabeth of York, Mary Berlin, the Lady in the Tower, Mistress of the Monarchy,

Henry the Eighth, Eleanor of Aquitaine, the life of Elizabeth I the First, and the six wives

of Henry the Eighth, which was the first Tudor History book that I ever read on Winter Break

in 1996.

So that's my personal share.

Alison lives in Surrey, England, with her husband.

So we jumped right in with me asking her about why she started this series of historical novels and how her opinion of Anne has changed through writing this novel.

The idea for the series came to me, literally, one of those eureka moments.

I was sitting in my agent's office in October 2014, we're discussing ideas for future fiction.

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