At the Mercy of the Queen : A Novel of Anne Boleyn (Hardcover)

from Christiana5

A pleasant work of fiction, encompassing the familiar story of Anne Boleyn from the perspective of one of her ladies in waiting (and cousin) Lady Margaret Shelton, AKA "Pretty Madge," who was also briefly a mistress of Henry VIII. The author is a descendent of Lady Shelton, making me curious to s...

from BrokenTeepee

Margaret Shelton was a cousin to Anne Boleyn and was sent to Court to be a lady in waiting to her Queen. She was a very innocent girl having been brought up in the country in Great Snoring - which I am sorry to the place just kept making me laugh. (Apparently it was named after a Saxon resident n...

from Stacey42

This was a decent work of Tudor fiction. We see Anne Boleyn through the eyes of Madge, a lady in waiting, cousin of Anne & briefly mistress of Henry VIII. The characters were for the most part well done - Henry & some of his courtiers were a bit flat but Anne & Madge were well drawn & developed. ...

from BookishDame

A sparkling account of the Tudor court, accompanied by the love story between Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, as well as her cousin and lady-in-waiting, Margaret Shelton, will give you many hours of enjoyment. This is a familiar story, but it's couched in the intrigue of Margaret or Madge Shelton's c...

from BookAddictDiary

Do we really need yet another rehashed version of the Anne Boleyn drama? That was the question I asked myself when I first saw At the Mercy of the Queen. Honestly, with the seemingly endless cascade of Tudor tales that have been released since the unexpected popularity of The Other Boleyn Girl, A...