The Other Boleyn Girl is a 2008 British drama film directed by Justin Chadwick. The screenplay by Peter Morgan was adapted from the 2001 novel of the same name by Philippa Gregory. It is a romanticized account of the lives of 16th-century aristocrats Mary Boleyn, one-time mistress of King Henry VIII, and her sister Anne, who became the monarch's ill-fated second wife.
Production studio BBC Films also owns the rights to adapt the sequel novel, The...
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The Other Boleyn Girl is a 2008 British drama film directed by Justin Chadwick. The screenplay by Peter Morgan was adapted from the 2001 novel of the same name by Philippa Gregory. It is a romanticized account of the lives of 16th-century aristocrats Mary Boleyn, one-time mistress of King Henry VIII, and her sister Anne, who became the monarch's ill-fated second wife.
Production studio BBC Films also owns the rights to adapt the sequel novel, The Boleyn Inheritance, which tells the story of Anne of Cleeves, Katherine Howard and Jane Boleyn.
When Catherine of Aragon fails to give England a male heir, the Duke of Norfolk and his brother in law, Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, plan to install Thomas' elder daughter Anne in the court of Henry VIII of England with the hope that she will become his mistress and potential mother of his son, thereby furthering their own political ambitions much to the disgust of Thomas' wife and the duke's sister, Lady Elizabeth Boleyn. Although Anne...
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