I’m glad you put this up. I have been reading about Boleyn for years, and although feel sorry for her also think she was a conniver who had no feelings for the poor queen, Kathryn, who was the true queen of England then and a good and pious wife. Unfortunately she did fulfill the mission, provide England with a male heir for the throne.
Henry viii was unbelievably cruel to Ann and somewhere on the net I read the night of her execution he spent it in some royal owned house full of likely related to the court beautiful women doting on him, in order to put her execution out of his mind.
What a story it all is/was. But what a horror in history.
Sounds like it was written by Dickens................
Well at least she wasn’t Thomas Cromwell. Executioner was drunk,after the fifth stroke a Yeoman finished him off.
That is, Catherine and she did NOT fulfill her mission.
See, the white racists were killing poor black women* even back then!
*as per that new TV series...
I remember the rhyme from history class for the fate of Henry’s wives: Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived.
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Henry positioned himself as a sort of God-Emperor who could do whatever he wanted. Anyone who got too close to him was subject to his casual wrath. Anne was no saint, but she didn’t deserve to be killed.
My wife is a big time genealogy buff and she can trace her roots to Anne Boleyn.
ML/NJ
Alison Weir, author covers Ann Bolyn extensively
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