In 1839, during excavations at the British Romsiy Abbey, archaeologists discovered a lead coffin—one that, back then, ordinary people were not buried in, only the noble. And the coffin was empty. Almost—not exactly: inside lay a wooden casket containing a long lock of women’s hair, golden-brown in color.
The ghost of Anne Boleyn—one of the many wives of Henry VIII—appears regularly in the Tower, in the so-called Queen’s House, where she was kept until her execution. Everyone who has seen her claims that the queen held her severed head in a headdress. On one night, a Tower guard even saw an entire procession of courtiers in Tudor costumes, led by the beheaded queen…
The history of Great Britain, generously soaked in blood, intrigue, and betrayal, continues to shock with its grim mystical secrets—told in this book with icy calmness and deep conviction.
This is a story of boundless cruelty, sophisticated deceit, and monstrous deceptions born by England.
A story of a unique, incomparable, merciless colonizer; of a country that was the first in the world to invent concentration camps.
A story of a state that possesses one of the world’s strongest intelligence services; the story of a cosmic conspirator, a global leader in surveillance of its population.
It began from the day Roman soldiers landed on cold, wind-swept shores…