“Seduce me. Write letters to me. And poems, I love poems. Ravish me with your words. Seduce me.”
Nonsense. That’s from The Tudors on Showtime.
Spooky...spooky...spooky!
How can it be determined that Anne Boleyn was a beautiful babe ?
Patton knew her.
Revisionist much?….
I’m sure you know that’s not a picture of her…..that’s Genevieve Bujold
From every account Ive read of the historic Anne she was a conniving, manipulative, scheming flirt who led Henry on a merry chase…..
….and was significant in turning him against his onetime friend, Thomas More….
….I think the King’s brutish decision to behead More eventually led to his decision to turn against Anne
She essentially was ‘hoisted by her own petard!’
From her portraits she wasn’t a beauty, pretty much average. Supposedly she was vivacious and flirtatious though which charmed Henry. Beauty wasn’t a requirement for a royal wife, bloodlines were. Henry had mistresses for the beauty part. He did, however, reject one wife because she was too homely, Anne of Cleves. He was to marry her sight unseen based upon a portrait that had been shown him and the artist had taken it upon himself to make her look better than she did in person. Anne was by all accounts a wonderful person so in the end it was likely Henry’s loss.
The six wives:
Divorced, beheaded, died
Divorce, beheaded survived.
If Henry the VIIIth. had known that the male determines the sex of the baby, would he have killed himself?
Inquiring minds want to know!
Because Anne was not of a royal line, she had no one to protect her from Henry’s cruel whims. Henry executing Catherine of Aragon would have led to a war with Spain. Henry had no such problem executing a commoner.