The Lady in the Tower is essentially about the last four months of Anne Boleyn's life. Anne's trial and execution has always been surrounded by mystery and scandal. Weir gives us a glance into the circumstances leading up to the arrests, the trials, execution, and everyone who played a big part in her destruction. Weir examines every piece of available evidence and gives us her own insight on what happened during those months.
A review I found that will be able to explain much more.
I don't want to ramble on about Anne Boleyn, because this entry will turn into a novel. I generally believe that Anne was innocent, and Cromwell and others constructed a case against Anne and others by fabricating evidence to rid of her. "In her favour, there are a multitude of compelling factors: the fact that she was involved in a life-or-death power struggle with Cromwell; his admission to Chapuys that he 'thought up and plotted' her fall; the incongruity of the charges, particularly that of plotting the King's death; the alteration of the dates in the Kent indictment; the discrepancies and illogicalities in both indictments; the striking absence of any evidence of Anne indulging in extra-marital affairs during the three years of her queenshop, and of any real proofs of infidelity; the fact that no female attendants(without whose co-operation Anne could not have contrived any illicit meeting with her 'lovers') were arrested with her; the fact that four of her co-accused were convicted first, thus prejudicing her own trial; that crucial documents are missing from the case records in the Baga de Secretis; the superficial nature of the surviving evidence; the disbanding of Anne's household and the summoning of the executioner before her condemnation; the King telling Jane Seymour in advance that Anne would be condemned; Anne and others voicing the suspicion that there was some other reason for her fall than the crimes of which she was accused; her repeated denials of her guilt, and -above all- her last confession, in which, both before and after receiving the Holy Sacrament, she maintained her innocence" (Weir).
