The Favor of Kings: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Favor of Kings, credited to Mary Hastings Bradley, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

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LibriVox recording of The Favor of Kings by Mary Hastings Bradley. Read in English by Verity Kendall; Lynne T; Gnomesb; Kalynda; Kikine; BettyB; Bill Boerst "Never have bright romance and black scandal been more attached to the name of lovely woman," writes a quaint and susceptible chronicler, " than to that of fair Anne Boleyn." Certainly no girl ever flashed so meteor-like above the satellites of an English court, and no woman ever went to her doom under more awful accusations. Since fiction could not be half so amazing as the facts of Anne Boleyn's story, I have kept this novel of her fortunes true to those facts, and have gone, for their knowledge, not only to the histories written of this period, but in many cases to the sources of those histories. My endeavor has been to reveal the actual characters and the actual situations, and to use as much of the real incident and dialogue as possible." (Summary from the Foreword))

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Favor of Kings
• Author credits: Mary Hastings Bradley
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 35
• Listed recording duration: 11:42:58

Catalogue topics

• marriage
• england
• henry viii
• anne boleyn
• tudors

Opening tracks: first 24 of 35

1. 00 - Foreword — 3:51
2. 01 - The Queen's Refusal — 15:12
3. 02 - A Broken Betrothal — 25:31
4. 03 - A Rose and Some Words — 29:41
5. 04 - A Dance With A King — 21:34
6. 05 - Hope Renewed — 23:00
7. 06 - The Interview — 14:07
8. 07 - Calumny — 29:39
9. 08 - The Insult — 14:47
10. 09 - A Vision of a Crown — 23:39
11. 10 - Second Thoughts — 19:47
12. 11 - An Inopportune Event — 11:39
13. 12 - A Royal Tête-À-Tête — 9:31
14. 13 - The Cardinal's Enlightenment — 19:27
15. 14 - The Pestilence — 13:29
16. 15 - In Hever Castle — 36:51
17. 16 - The Queen Speaks — 15:34
18. 17 - A Tragic Farce — 14:58
19. 18 - The Law's Delays — 20:56
20. 19 - A Farewell to Greatness — 18:23
21. 20 - Lady Anne Rochford — 23:03
22. 21 - Hope Deferred — 15:32
23. 22 - The Marchioness of Pembroke — 20:38
24. 23 - The Last Card — 14:19

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