I’ve just read Zupanec’s comments plus the one by the person praising her and having a go at a reviewer. In that comment the person accuses The Anne Boleyn Files of having a go at Zupanec. That commenter then accuses a self-published author who writes about Anne Boleyn ( I assume she means me!) of launching a campaign against Zupanec and being responsible for the negative reviews. As if I haven’t got anything better to do! I do not know any of the reviewers who reviewed her book and have nothing to do with it getting bad reviews. It’s ridiculous.

I have kept my personal feelings about the book to myself, I have not reviewed it and all I have done is questioned some of the theories in it, which caused a personal attack on me from Zupanec which she eventually took down. If an author is going to say things like Anne had two phantom pregnancies, that historians have mistranslated sources and controversial things about Anne then surely they should expect people to question their theories and interpretation of sources. History is all about using primary sources, coming to conclusions, sharing those conclusions, being challenged/debating those ideas and then the idea growing from that. Nothing is set in stone unless it is absolute fact corroborated by many sources.

It appears that the negative reviews, though, are more to do with Zupanec’s use of English and the editing of the book.