The Gathering Storm: The Forces Roiling the World of Anne Boleyn
6 min readDec 30, 2021
By
Howard Bloom
[Chapter 34 in Howard Bloom’s upcoming 2023 book The Case of the Sexual Cosmos: Everything You Know About Nature Is Wrong.]
What was the role of sex in the romance of Anne Boleyn and Henry VIIIth? Did their courtship do what Pierre Louis de Maupertuis decrees — finding the shortest…