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Let me know expressly your whole mind as to the love between us two. ♥ Henry to Anne, c. 1527

Against that is Anne’s greatest distinctiveness, something she shares with only one other English queen: she married for love. • In marrying for love, Henry in effect confused the role of the wife and the mistress, with the result that personal emotion was the basis for his relationship with Anne and hers with him. ♡ Eric Ives

By daily proof you shall me find To be to you both loving and kind ♥ Anne to Henry, c. 1528

The rumours reaching the Low Countries…painted quite a different picture – not of a besotted king coming to his senses but of one who was more besotted than ever, constantly at his wife’s side… In late October 1533 Anne’s maids of honour were repeating Henry’s brazen remark that he loved the queen so much that he would beg for alms from door to door rather than give her up. The two are still described as ‘merry’. ♡ Eric Ives

The demonstrations of your affection are such, the beautiful mottoes of the letter so cordially expressed, that they oblige me forever to honour, love, and serve you sincerely, beseeching you to continue in the same firm and constant purpose. ♥ Henry to Anne, c. summer 1527

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"He’s actually gonna chop my head off!"

"I mean, I guess he must’ve really liked my head."

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Rafaëlle Cohen as Anne Boleyn | The Boleyns: A Scandalous Family

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The one and only Anne Boleyn !

I tried to depict her as I think the real Anne might have looked like based of the descriptions and the posthumous portraits of her

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“I saw my mum watching The Tudors and told her Anne Boleyn gets executed, she got angry at me for giving “spoilers”. Mum, it was 448 years ago and you have lived in England your whole life; how do you not know this???” - Submitted by Anonymous

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Alison Weir’s Six Tudor Queens portraiture by The Balbusso Twins

Katherine of Aragon, The True Queen

Anne Boleyn, A King’s Obsession

Jane Seymour, The Haunted Queen

Anna of Kleve, The Queen of Secrets

Katheryn Howard, The Tainted Queen

Katharine Parr, The Sixth Wife

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A sketch of Anne Boleyn

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The Women of Hans Holbein Sketches

1. The sitter in the portrait is unknown, but it has been suspected to be of Amalia of Cleves, the sister of Anne of Cleves.

2. Elizabeth Audley, the wife of Thomas Audley, 1st Baron Audley of Walden

3. The sitter in the portrait is unknown, but it has been suspect to be of Anne Boleyn.

4. Alice Burgh, the wife of Thomas Burgh who was a part of the household of Prince Edward (later Edward VI).

5. Margaret Butts, a lady-in-waiting to Princess Mary (later Mary I).

6. Anne Cresarce, a ward of Thomas More.

7. Elizabeth Dauncey, a daughter of Thomas More.

8. Margaret, Marchioness of Dorset, a godmother to Princess Elizabeth (later Elizabeth I).

9. Margaret Elyot.

10. Margaret Giggs, a ward of Thomas More.

11. Cicely Heron, a daughter of Thomas More.

12. Mary Heveningham, a first cousin to Anne Boleyn and suspected mistress to Henry VIII.

13. Elizabeth Hoby, was a part of Katherine Parr’s inner circle.

14. The sitter in the portrait is unknown, but it has been suspected to be of Katherine Howard.

15. Frances, Countess of Surrey, the wife of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey.

16. Mary, Duchess of Richmond and Somerset, the wife of Henry VIII’s illegitimate son Henry Fitzroy.

17. Probably of Jane Lister.

18. Princess Mary (later Mary I).

19. Joan Meautas, lady of the privy chamber to Jane Seymour.

20. Mary Monteagle, a daughter of Charles Brandon.

21. Formerly suspected to be of Jane Boleyn, but is now believed to be of Grace Parker.

22. Could be any of the three wives of Robert Radcliffe, 1st Earl of Sussex, but is probably his third wife Mary Arundell.

23. Elizabeth Rich, the wife of Richard Rich, 1st Baron Rich.

24. Jane Seymour.

25. Unknown sitter.

26. Unknown sitter.

27. Unknown sitter.

28. Unknown sitter.

29. Unknown sitter, but has been suspected to be of Anne Herbert, the sister of Katherine Parr.

30. Unknown sitter.

31. Unknown sitter, but has been suspected to be of Maud Green, the mother of Katherine Parr.

32. Elizabeth Vaux, a first cousin to Katherine Parr.

33. Catherine Willoughby, the wife of Charles Brandon.

34. Mary Zouch, a lady-in-waiting to Anne Boleyn.

35. Mary Guilford, the wife of Henry Guilford.

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the cousins (who look like they’ve adjusted very well to modern life)

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Anne hasn’t always been seen as the skanky schemer. For supporters of Katherine of Aragon she was worse: a cold hearted murderess. For Catholic propagandists such as Nicholas Sander, she was a six fingered, jaundiced looking erotomaniac who slept with butlers, chaplains and half of the French Court. For Elizabethan admirers, she was the unsung heroine of the Protestant Reformation. For the Romantics, particularly in painting, she was the hapless victim of a king’s tyranny-a view that gets taken up in earliest film versions of Anne, Ernst Lubitsch’s silent Anna Boleyna and Alexander Korda’s The Private Life of Henry VIII. In post-war movies and on television, Anne has animated by the rebellious spirit of the sixties ( Anne of the Thousand Days), the “mean girl” and “power feminist” celebration of female aggression and competitiveness of the nineties ( The Other Boleyn Girl) and the third-wave feminism of a new generation of Anne worshipers, inspired by Natalie Dormer’s brainy seductress of The Tudors to see Anne a woman too smart, sexy and strong for her own time, unfairly vilified for her defiance of sixteenth century norms of wifely obedience and silence.

Henry may have tried to write his second wife out of history but Anne Boleyn has been too strong for him, in the many guises she has assumed over the centuries.

Susan Bordo-The Creation of Anne Boleyn