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A Tudor Story: The Return of Anne Boleyn

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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.