Posted on 05/19/2021 9:03:59 AM PDT by CheshireTheCat
On this date in 1536, Anne Boleyn lost her head.
Any queen decapitated by her king would of course rate an entry in these grim pages. But this does not quite explain Anne Boleyn‘s enduring appeal, relevance and recognizability for the most casual of modern observers, and her concomitant footprint in popular culture, even with the “Greek tragedy” quality of her life.
Anne stands at the fulcrum of England’s epochal leap into modernity. Whether she was that fulcrum might depend on the reader’s sympathy for the Great Man theory of history, but little more do we injure our headless queen to regard her as the woman for her time and place — the accidental hero (or villain) raised up and thrown down by the tectonic forces of her milieu.
Through Anne was born — for reasons of momentary political arrangements of long-forgotten dynasts, which seems a shockingly parochial proximate cause — the English Reformation, and through the Reformation was born the crown’s decisive triumph over the nobility, the broad middle class nurtured on the spoils of Catholic monasteries, the rising Britannia fit to rule. Most would take as an epitaph historical accidents of such magnitude.....
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Thomas Cromwell was quite the piece of work. Instrumental in the execution of Thomas More and John Fischer
Thank you, mass55th.
I actually pray that I can forgive her.
But what happened to me was nothing compared to the child smuggling. Those poor children will be scarred for life. And Biden will have to answer for it online when he meets his maker.
I hope that not all of them succumb to prostitution and drugs.
My wife is a first cousin 14 times removed of Anne Boleyn and is the 12th Great Grandniece of Catherine Howard, both of whom were married to Henry VIII and both of whom lost their heads. She traces her line back to Sir Thomas Arundell, who married Lady Margaret Howard. Lady Margaret was the daughter of Lord Edmund Howard, and Lady Margaret’s sister was Catherine Howard, fifth wife of Henry VIII. Lord Edmund Howard’s sister, Elizabeth Howard, married Thomas Boleyn, and they had Anne Boleyn. So, Lady Margaret and Anne Boleyn were cousins.
Thanks for letting us know. Lord Edmund Howard is shown as my 13th great-granduncle on Ancestry.com. Catherine Howard is shown as 1st cousin 14x removed.
Thanks. I sent the link to my wife.
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