Below is the full interview, in which we talk about the way 16th century women are portrayed in popular culture, early feminism ( Christina Pizan), the historical fiction of the 1950’s ( Norah Lofts), and a teaser on new information she’s discovered about Anne Boleyn. I recently had the chance to interview Alison Weir for my podcast, and it was an extraordinary conversation for me. Added to that, I was already immersing myself in the world of early English choral music thanks to my English Renaissance album by the King’s Singers, and I was set up for my lifelong passion. Little did I know that I would go through my own struggle to have a living child, in which I would identify more than I wanted to with Katherine of Aragon. I was immediately hooked on this saga of drama and the way lives could be forever changed because of the inability to bear a son.
I remember starting it, laying in my bed in my attic bedroom when it was snowing outside.
About 2o years ago I read Alison Weir’s Six Wives of Henry VIII.
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