Tempestuous yet virtuous, the beautiful Anne Boleyn, hand-maiden to Queen Katherine, reluctabtly found herself the apple of King Henry's eye. Embittered by the queen's inability to provide him with a son, Henry was already notorious for seeking consolation with a varied succession of women-- Anne's own sister among them.

Determined not to meet the same fate as her disgraced sister, Anne refused Henry's every advance on the grounds that she was already betrothed and that Henry himself was married. But the king's passion only burned more furiously-- he must possess Anne. He soon too care of her first objection by banishing her fiance. Now only the queen remained, and Henry vowed she'd not remain for long-- that Anne would be queen in her stead...