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!’
Thomas More acknowledged Anne Boleyn as anointed queen and accepted that her children would be heirs to the throne. What condemned him was that he couldn’t accept Henry VIII as head of the Church of England, so he couldn’t accept the Act of Succession because it would have meant repudiating the Pope.
Anne Boleyn was lots of things - religious, educated, sophisticated, interested in Tyndall and reformation as well as possibly manipulative and flirtatious. But I don’t believe she started the relationship with Henry, believing she would become queen. That would have been unheard of. She definitely did not want to be his mistress.
She was not a nice lady.
Thank you.
An interesting problem with history is that it's, as they say, written by the victors.
Considering the lengths our government has been going through today to censor, I can only imagine how much easier it would've been with relatively few people who could write and those that could were working for, or with, the government.