Difficult to say exactly when or how. I think was all together in 2008: first, I started to do a research about Henry VIII and then, of course, I found Anne. That was my “first meet” with her. Then I said to a friend of mine that I was reading about Henry and his wives and he asked me if I have already seen The Tudors series – that was in 2008 – and I said “no, I didn´t” and he said: “you really should, Anne reminds me you”, and my first thought was “my goodness, that´s is not good” because that “friend” was in fact a person who have disappointed me very much, kind of he was my best friend and without any reason he started – in 2007 – to tell to others that I have betrayed him and that I was a manipulator – he even said that he was “bewitched”, wth? – person and evil too. Anyway, crazy thing, but them – one year after, in 2008, he asked me to forgive him and that´s why we had this conversation about The Tudors. So, I was like “Jesus, let me read more about Anne” and so I did. And I loved her.

Despite the bad things that may say in some biographies and books I found myself to admire her more and more for her strength and intelligence, for she was so decided to became a queen and for all she did about religions affairs. So, after reading a lot about her, I said to that “friend”: “thank you for compare me to Anne. She is amazing!” and he said “with all the qualities and faults of a real queen, but I like jane the most” -.- no comments, anyway, I started to say about Anne to everybody, so for a while ppl used to call me Anne – sometimes they still nowadays – and for joke I used to call “that friend” as “Henry” and my dear friend as Elizabeth (Bessy or Lizzie). I know, kinda crazy, but was fun because everyone around use to ask things like “who is anne? Or who is Elizabeth” and then, with some pride, I explained who they were and ppl get interested about it. Then everybody started to come to me like “you talk so much about anne that I went to internet read her biography” or “gosh, I saw The Tudors yesterday just because of you”. So, it´s great because now every time I say something about the Tudor family or about Anne my friends already know what I’m talking about and whom those people were.

Melissa, if you read this message, I would be very interested in see those pictures of yours from  the Tudor house! Thanks

*sorry for eventually any English mistake, but it´s not my first language*

I read “The Secret Diary of Anne Boleyn” by Robin Maxwell when I was eleven and have been fascinated by Anne and the Tudors ever since!

I have always been interested in history especially British monarchy. I saw the movie, 'the other boleyn girl' and read the book a couple of months ago….I then read another book, and then another….

Despite some protrayals of Anne being a manipulative, domineering woman who sowed what she reaped(referring to her cheating husband, NOT her death) I feel extremely sorry for someone who in the end, was so powerless to avoid not only her murder, and possibly legitimacy of her only living child, but her reputation and the demise of her brother and friends.

Talk about being railroaded! No one should have to die like she did….And you know what? I'm surprised that for a second that people believed that she was an adulteress and committed incest, including her daughter(according to Robin Maxwell)…

As far back as I can remember, I have been a history buff. When I was five years old, I demanded to be Martha Washington for Halloween, and my mother made me a lovely lavender satin 18th-century-style dress. By the time I was seven, I had found out about Henry VIII and his wives (how exactly I first found out, I do not remember, but my mother did like Anne of the Thousand Days and this was about the time that Keith Michell's series was appearing on PBS). I read Shakespeare's Henry VIII (a collection of Shakespeare's plays in multiple volumes was in our apartment, and the play was just the right size and length — if not reading comprehension — for a little girl to read), colored Bellerophon's “Henry VIII and His Six Wives” paper dolls coloring book, and my mother got me Tudor-themed books and toys. I was a very weird child

When I was eight or nine years old, I dressed up as Anne Boleyn (I thought her portrait as pretty as her name) for Halloween: my mother made the dress out of red velvet with a white taffeta underskirt showing, with brown fake-fur sleeves and trim. I may not have understood a lot of what I was reading (I didn't quite understand the break from Rome and the dissolution of the monasteries till I was a teenager), but I did like pretty dresses!

I was in the local book shop about 7 years ago, and felt drawn to Joanna Denny's Anne Boleyn book, so I brought it 😀 I had loved the Tudors since doing a project at school when I was 10, but never really got into it till I was in my late teens. I remember we went on this awesome trip to a Tudor house while at school, we dressed up and lived like Tudors for the day! We made toast and pomanders, did some writing with a quill and listened to Tudor music… It was great fun.

When I was 9 I remember being completely fascinated when learning about English kings and queens in history. I may have only been 9 but I was tota hooked and desparate to learn more and as I went through school my thirst for history grew and grew, I love all round history but the Tudor period in English history is like no other, the absolute power of the monarchs to the great families in the land. No other history fascinates and intrigues me like the Tudors.

Anne just stood out for me a woman years a head of her time, I admire her greatly.

Sabrina, Anne found Henry and smacked him red.
Take that for having put me in the tower, and that for murdering me, and that for trumping up false charges or for listening to rubbish, and that for drinking that rhubarb tea!

Boleyn said

juliane said

Sabrina, Anne found Henry and smacked him red.
Take that for having put me in the tower, and that for murdering me, and that for trumping up false charges or for listening to rubbish, and that for drinking that rhubarb tea!

Juliane I rather think a lot of us, would like to kick Henry right between the eyes, and I don’t mean the ones on his face either.
Would be good to imagine Anne chasing Henry and Cromwell down the corridors of Hampton Court with a bed warmer in her hands and clonking both Henry and Cromwell over the head saying “Take that for being a prat Henry” and “Take this Cromwell for having me killed”

As for getting interested in Anne, well the whole Tudor period of history really. I can remember one of my primary school teachers touching breifly on Henry and the Tudor crew, and I was drawn more to the dresses etc, but then when I saw Anne It was like i’d been hit by a brick, she just kind of stood out more than Henry or his other wives. She was simply unforgetable, even though I was only about 8 or 9 at the time, but started to read books about her in school library, and begged my mum to get me some more books about the Tudors from the local library.
So I suppose you could say Anne and the Tudors have always been part of my life.

Boleyn, that was so funny!
Made me laugh to imagine all that you wrote. Banging their heads together until bells rang for both, oh… Hee hee!
A song I now associate with Crommie… Police. I’ll be watching you!
Oh that was good!