About the book: 1995 / "The Path to the Scaffold" (original title "Murder Royally") - the best historical novel about love, written by the famous English writer Elenor Burford under the pseudonym Jean Plaidy, and the best romance novel, which is based on real historical events and persons. The novel is not only about the private life of Henry VIII (in our country they are well aware of the English king from the television and video films “The Private Life of Henry VIII” and etc.), in cruelty which could only be compared with his daughter Mary I Tudor, popularly nicknamed “Bloody Mary”, but also about the terrible fate of Katherine and her cousin Anne Boleyn, sentenced to death for alleged adultery. The author is sympathetic to the heroines of his novel, whose strong passions partly led them to the scaffold.