A Tudor Story: The Return of Anne Boleyn [Paperback]

W S Walsh-Pakenham (Author)

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ISBN-10: 071889166X | ISBN-13: 978-0718891664 | Publication Date: November 5, 2006

Join Canon Pakenham-Walsh on his personal journey across psychic channels to find the real Anne Boleyn - a journey, which beneath its psychic and historical drama, demonstrates religious purpose. The Author's deep-rooted fascination for Anne Boleyn first began in 1917 during a missionary trip to China, but it was on his return to England in 1919 that Pakenham-Walsh began to see divine confirmation of his desire to uncover the true Anne Boleyn. Following a prayer at Boleyn's burial site that she might become his guardian angel, Pakenham-Walsh experienced a series of bizarre coincidences. It was these strange incidents which led Pakenham-Walsh to seek clairvoyants, who helped to channel the spirit of Anne Boleyn. Through sessions with psychic mediums, the reader is presented with transcripts and accounts of psychic messages from Anne Boleyn and significant characters within Anne Boleyn's short lifetime. From one of Anne Boleyn's maids, put to death 'for the sake' of Anne Boleyn, to an infuriated Henry VIII, Pakenham-Walsh vividly recounts his experiences in a sympathetic and quaint style. The Author: Canon W.S. Pakenham-Walsh, scion of a distinguished Irish clerical family, was born in 1868. For more than 25 years, he was in China, as Chaplain to the British community in Foochow, and as head of theological schools and colleges. It was in the library of the Foochow community that he first found books related to Anne Boleyn's enigmatic life and from which he began to compile a summary of her life.

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Canon W.S. Pakenham-Walsh was born in 1868 and at the age of 29 until 52, he acted as Chaplain to the British community in Foochow, China. It was in the library of the Foochow community that Pakenham-Walsh first found books related to Anne Boleyn's enigmatic life and from which he began to compile a summary of her life. On his return to England became a keen scholar and educationalist, as well as being a respected clergyman. He died in 1960 at the age of 92.

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• Paperback: 200 pages
• Publisher: Lutterworth Press (November 5, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 071889166X
• ISBN-13: 978-0718891664
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.7 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.9 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,502,390 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars For Hard-Core Tudor Fans, June 29, 2010

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This is a true story. As someone wrote, this book is really for the real hard-core Anne Boleyn and Tudor fans, those interested in after-death psychic contacts, and/or those who are fascinated with the Spiritualist movement of the late 1800s. Canon Packenham-Walsh was no dilettante or casual seance-goer. He was as conservative as only an Anglican vicar of the Victorian times could be, constantly questioning and testing his sources, and the meaning of what was happening to him. He kept these sessions with mediums completely private, often attending anonymously, and according to him, never giving any of the sensitives a clue as to what his main interest was. In fact, it appears that not only was Anne Boleyn wanting him to help clear her name (a task which seems well under way now, thanks to most scholars of today) but a main goal was to help rescue her ex Henry from the depths of what seems like (in Catholic terms) limbo--a state of spiritual slumber, which when disturbed, resulted in a great confusion and distress on Henry's part, but ultimately, apparently allowed him to begin to make restitution and start the process of reclaiming his soul. Sounds a little farfetched on the surface, but hey, Canon P-W thought so too! I liked it; it made me think about karma, and what might happen to someone who had killed some 70,000 people (Henry's estimated toll!) after their own death. Those were bloodthirsty times, indeed.