February 2012
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Sorry if I haven’t been here for a while, been so much to do lately! (I’m at my last year at high school, and graduating this summer, and after that, I’ll be studying history at uni). But if there’s anything specific you wanna know (Anne-related), feel very free to ask me/request. I’m happy to help! And I will be here more in the future, promise!
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Anna comes, the most famous woman in the world; Anna comes, the shining incarnation of chastity In snow-white litter, just like the goddesses Anna the Queen is here, the preservation of your future
- From In Praise of Queen Anne Boleyn by Nicholas Udall, 1533
January 2012
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Anne's last letter to Henry, dated May 6, 1536
Sir,
Your Grace’s displeasure, and my imprisonment are things so strange unto me, as what to write, or what to excuse, I am altogether ignorant. Whereas you send unto me (willing me to confess a truth, and so obtain your favour) by such an one, whom you know to be my ancient professed enemy. I no sooner received this message by him, than I rightly conceived your meaning; and if, as you say,...
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Of all the letters Henry and Anne wrote to each other, 17 survived. They can now be found in the Vatican Library in Rome. They wrote to each other in English and French.
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Anne did first act as a fille d’honneur at the court of Archduchess Margaret of Austria. Margaret was the godmother of Henry and Catherine of Aragon’s short-lived son, Henry. Anne was later with Princess Mary (Henry VIII’s sister) and Queen Claude of France.
Sorry about the absence, but I’m back now, and will keep you posted on our beloved Queen.
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“Like my family motto, I am the most happy.”
– Anne Boleyn
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“She had been a remarkable woman. She would remain a remarkable woman even in a...”
– The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn, Eric Ives
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“THE PLOT AGAINST ANNE BOLEYN WAS MOST CAREFULLY CALCULATED. JANE SEYMOUR...”
– Eric Ives
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: “For six years…This year and this, and this, and... →
sufferingelectofgod:
“For six years…This year and this, and this, and this, I did not love him. And then I did. Then I was his. I can count the days I was his in hundreds. The days we bedded. Married. Were happy. Bore Elizabeth. Hated. Lusted. Bore a dead child, which condemned me to death. In all, one thousand…
December 2011
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rudysteiners asked: Hi! I know you just made a post saying you'd be MIA for the next little while, but I thought I'd let you know there's a typo in the sidebar; it says Anne was executed in May 1936. Happy holidays! (:
Won’t be here much these days due to the festive season, but let me just say: Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all history-geeks out there! And when xmas is over, I’ll bring you loads of Anne facts, pics, etc. Have a lovely time <3 X.
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“Commend me to his Majesty, and tell him that he has ever been constant in his...”
– Anne Boleyn just prior to her execution
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For a woman who played such an important part in English history, we know remarkably little about Anne’s earliest years. Antonia Fraser puts Anne’s birth at 1500 or 1501, probably at Blickling (Norfolk) and the date of birth seems to be at the end of May or early June. Other historians put Anne’s birth as late as 1507 or 1509.
Anne spent part of her childhood at the court of the...
love letters of great men vol.1: letter 1
warmwoolenmittens:
And I quote:
To Anne Boleyn
My Mistress and Friend,
I and my heart out ourselves in your hands, begging you to recommend us to your good grace and not to let absence lessen your affection… or myself the pang of absence is already to great, and when I think of the increase of what I must needs suffer it would be well nigh intolerable but for my firm hope of your unchangeable...
enjoy-drugs:
Death, rock me asleep,
Bring me to quiet rest,
Let pass my weary guiltless ghost
Out of my careful breast.
Toll on, thou passing bell;
Ring out my doleful knell;
Let thy sound my death tell.
Death doth draw nigh;
There is no remedy.
“Anna comes, the most famous woman in the world;
Anna comes, the shining...”
– - Nicholas Udall, In Praise of Queen Anne Boleyn, 1533 (via little-neck)
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Did you know
That the same year Anne died, so did Henry’s illegitimate son Henry Fitzroy? Henry had gotten Fitzroy with one of his mistresses from his marriage to Catherine, Elizabeth Blount, in 1519, and the illegitimate son would later become Earl of Nottingham and Duke of Richmond and Somerset. When Fitzroy was 14, Anne (this was 1533, so she was Queen now) did in fact pair him up with her cousin Mary...
haveaniceflight asked: "Campaign make a person happy: send this for the 10 tumblrs that you most admire; if you receive it 3 times or more consider yourself loved! :) ♥ oh and this is for your personal blog too. :P
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A text on Anne, written by George Cavendish
George Cavendish lived from 1494 - 1562, and the text is therefore written in “oldstyle english”, and is most likely very close to the truth, given the fact that Cavendish worked for Wolsey and at the court of Henry VIII (Cavendish is now in later years most known for his biography on Wolsey).
There was at this time presented to the eye of the court the rare and admyrable bewtie of...
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At Anne's coronation, a ballad about the white...
Here are some verses from it:
Of body small, Of power regal She is, and sharp of sight; Of courage hault, No manner fault Is in this falcon white.
And where by wrong She hath flown long Uncertain where to [a]light; Herself repose Upon the Rose Now may this falcon white. Whereon to rest And build her nest, God grant her most of might! That England may Rejoice alway, In this same falcon white.
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Anne's falcon badge
was granted to Anne when she was made Marquess of Pembroke.
Black/white version
The white falcon came from the heraldic crest of the Butlers who were Earls of Ormonde. Anne’s father, Thomas Boleyn, was related to the Butlers of Ireland through his mother and was granted the Earldom by Henry VIII after the King forced Piers Butler to relinquish the title in 1528. This falcon also appears on...
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andyoushakeitallabout asked: hello there fellow Anne Boleyn appreciater, I was just wondering where your historically correct facts are coming from? This is not a criticism! I appreciate your site very much so. I graduated college with a degree in history and took a course where I was forced (happily) to read over 25 books and similar amounts of relevant journal articles on the life and trials of Anne Boleyn. Doing so caused...
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“By daily proof you shall me find, to be to you both loving and kind.”
– Anne Boleyn in a letter to Henry VIII
untilstarsalight asked: What a wonderful blog! Anne Boleyn is my role model, it's nice to know that I can always come on here to look up more about her~
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