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11:40 am
February 24, 2010
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I found 5 women who attended Anne while she was in the Tower. Lady Kingston, Lady Anne Shelton, Lady Elizabeth Boleyn, Margaret Coffin and Elizabeth Stoner. Lady Shelton was the woman who took care of Elizabeth and Mary. She did not want to be cruel to Mary even though she was ordered to by Anne and Henry. Anne and her had a falling out possibly over Henry's affair with Shelton's daughter. Elizabeth Boleyn did not get along with her niece Anne. Lady Kingston did what she was asked by her husband to do. Elizabeth Stoner was wife of the King's Sergent of Arms. Coffin was wife of Anne's Master of the Horse. None seem to have been close to Anne.
Quote from Ive's Life and Death of Anne Boleyn, “Escorted to the scaffold by Sir William Kingston, followed by the four 'wardresses' she had disliked, Anne walked the final fifty yards.” “A brief farewell to her weeping servants, a request for prayer, and Anne kneeled down,….” “The women covered her, wrapped the head in a white cloth and they carried her to the chapel and placed her in the elm chest…..”
So it seems at the end Anne may have won these women over. Or maybe watching the murder was too much for them to bear. Even though they did not get along with Anne, they had known her for many years. Having spent time with Anne in close quarters and then to have to witness her death, may have been more than these women could bear.
1:54 pm
August 2, 2010
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I think it's very probable that Anne won them other. She was very convincing and alluring, and I'm sure she could convince them she was innocent, and then they would have felt very sorry for her. I read about Lady Shelton and Anne having a falling-out about Madge Shelton's affair with Henry, so that makes sense. I believe Lady Boleyn was a former lady-in-waiting of Catherine of Aragon, so her enmity towards Anne also makes sense. Plus, she wasn't a blood relation, just the wife of Anne's uncle, right?
"Grumble all you like, this is how it's going to be"
10:42 am
February 24, 2010
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Anne Shelton was Thomas' elder sister married to John Shelton.
Elizabeth Boleyn was married to Thomas' brother James.
7:50 pm
September 22, 2010
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I find their reaction to her execution logical…I guess it was and still is very cruel to hold any animosity against someone who is about to die.And neither of these women had any significant reason to hate Anne,other than seeing her as the third woman in the royal marriage.But that was disdain,not hate and by this rate it must have been really clear to them that she was neither guilty or the monster everyone described.In any case,I find it highly repulsive to hate a woman(for no reason and crime) so much as to enjoy her death.They just didn’t approve of her and the life she led but that didn’t erase the fact thatshe was a young woman,a mother who facing this death.And in the end you don’t hold anything against the dead,after their pass you don’t need to judge them…And a translation of an ancient greek saying about those that have passed: “The dead man needs no judgement by us”
3:56 pm
August 2, 2010
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I agree, Anne. They didn’t have to like her to feel pity and sorrow that she was going to die, as as you said it is horrid to think that they would hate her so much they were pleased at her death. I’ll stop now before I get into a rant that just makes me angry! 🙂
"Grumble all you like, this is how it's going to be"
5:59 pm
September 22, 2010
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It is so pointless to hate someone when he gets that kind of punishment…I want to believe that their dislike went as far as to think that it was righteous to follow Katherine’s destiny:being left for one of her ladies,her marriage annuled and left at a manor house somewhere in the country.Not imprisonment and death.In the end,I think it is only natural to forget all wrongs and animosities.After all,they lived beside her for a while and they must have seen that she was not the concubine but a young mother,a wronged woman,a human being.It is easier to hate someone when you don’t see them as a human being.That,alongside with the fact that there was no real reason to hate her,was their undoing:they grew to respect and understand her
4:34 pm
August 2, 2010
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You said it all, Anne!!! By the way, jealous here of your name since it’s the same as our Anne’s 😀
"Grumble all you like, this is how it's going to be"
6:48 am
September 22, 2010
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Ha ha ha!!!I guess that it was destiny that brought me to Anne!!!!!!!!Well,the truth is that as a little girl I used to find my name plain and so I started researching famous Annes and combined with my grandfather’s love for Anne’s story that got me fixed on her!
3:25 pm
August 2, 2010
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Funny, Anne 🙂 When I was younger I absolutely adored the Anne of Green Gables books, so that’s just another Anne I love! I distinctly remember reading the first one, even at eight or nine, and when Anne said, “Anne, A-N-N-E, Anne with an E,” I was so excited because she spelled it the same way as Anne Boleyn did. Personally I like the name Anne anyway (so you have a good name all the way around!) and I don’t think it’s plain, but add Anne Boleyn’s history to it and I am very, very envious of your name!!
"Grumble all you like, this is how it's going to be"
10:19 pm
August 12, 2009
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Anne said:
Ha ha ha!!!I guess that it was destiny that brought me to Anne!!!!!!!!Well,the truth is that as a little girl I used to find my name plain and so I started researching famous Annes and combined with my grandfather’s love for Anne’s story that got me fixed on her!
What a neat story! It sounds like your Anne obsession might be in your genes. 
"Don't knock at death's door.
Ring the bell and run. He hates that."
