anne boleyn

     

Just prior to her death in 1536, she told Sir William Kingston, "I have a little neck"

Trivia about anne boleyn

  • Only prisoners of high rank were executed here on Tower Green, & this woman was the first queen beheaded here
  • The first wife of Henry VIII to get the axe
  • Henry VIII imported an executioner from France just to behead this second wife on May 19, 1536
  • This queen was the Anne in Anderson's 1948 "Anne of the Thousand Days"
  • On May 2, 1536, she was sent to the Tower of London on adultery charges; on May 19, head rolled
  • On the big screen, Genevieve Bujold & Merle Oberon have both played this wife of Henry VIII
  • She wasn't Henry VIII's first wife, but she was the first that he beheaded
  • In September 1533 this second wife of Henry VIII gave birth to a (gasp!) girl...huge mistake on her part
  • Henry's 2nd wife, she was the sister of one of his former mistresses
  • As a mark of his favor, one thing Henry VIII does for her is to make her the Marchioness of Pembroke
  • Maxwell Anderson's play "Anne of the Thousand Days" concerned the tragic life of this woman
  • Convicted of treason, 1536
  • In January 1533 she secretly married the king of England
  • She married Henry in January 1533 and gave birth to Elizabeth in September
  • (Alex reports from the Metropolitan Opera at Lincoln Center.) The 2011-2012 Metropolitan Opera season opens with world-famous soprano Anna Netrebko as this ill-fated wife of Henry VIII
  • One of the few condemned English royals not axe-cuted, in 1536 she was done in with a sword
  • In 1536, with only a female heir, she was first of Henry VIII's wives to go on the chopping block
  • June 1, 1533:This woman, Henry VIII's new wife, is crowned queen
  • The daughter of the Earl of Wiltshire, she refused to be the English king's mistress, so he married her in 1533
  • Born around 1507, married a king & gave birth to a future queen, died 1536 in London
  • Seen here, she married Henry VIII in 1533
  • Her 1536 demise was covered in "Anne Affair to Remember: Queen Loses Head Over Her Brother!"
  • In 1533 she gave birth to future Queen Elizabeth I

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