“Where did you leave your head?” sorry, couldn’t help myself…

Oh him! You know he cried when Wolsey berated him. What kind of a husband would he have been to have folded so easily? I think Heidi, that would have been Anne’s answer after she had time to think about it. I don’t think she wanted a man that she would have to give a backbone. She wanted a man with backbone. It took a year or two for Henry to convince Anne that he was the man for her. Her not backing down with Henry was because she trusted him to have the backbone to do what he promised. He promised to make her Queen and he fought tooth and nail to accomplish that. Percy went home at his father’s bidding with his tail between his legs. He was gone before she even understood what had happened. That must have been a big turn off to her when she realized Percy had given up on her.

HEIDI*BULLEN said

To Anne B: Why did you not keep your foot firmly on the ground and fight for Henry Percy?
I’m sure she would have given H.P the back bone if she never gave up. It’s obvious he never stopped loving her. I know there was stronger powers of persuasion, but look at how Anne got to be queen. Not backing down until she got it.

Henry Percy strikes me as being a bit of a coward, if he truly did love Anne he would have moved heaven and earth for her, and taken the consquences of his actions. But there again it wasn’t as if his rival was someone like Thomas Twerp, Wyatt I mean. His rival was the only person that could destroy the whole family at the simply scratch of a quill. So in a way I can understand why he choose to high tail it out of there. He never forgot her and yes he did love her for the rest of his life, but his love for her wasn’t enough for him to risk his family or his life. Family loyalty would always come first with him no matter who he loved.

Sarah said

I’d ask her about Henry Percy. Were you two serious about getting married? How did you met? Who fell for who first? Was it in infact Henry who broke up the two of you? After all that happened with Henry, do you wish you had been able to marry Percy instead?

Also I’d ask her about her birth date and her experiences in the low countries and France.

Wolsey was the one who broke them up, although it was Henry who ordered him to do it.

Mimico said
. Also i think the boy you are refering to is John Woodville (brother of Catherine Woodville) who was 20 and Katherine Neville who was 65 when they married. Shoking age difference really.

This one was even considered shocking at the time!

Anne had a few mottos to be honest, The Most happy only became her motto when she married Face ache.
“Ainsi sera, groigne qui groigne”, was another she used but only for a few weeks. It means “Grumble all you like, this is how it is going to be.”
It was thought she used this one to basically tell the people that who felt she was usurping K.O.A’s place to go do one.
She was said she also used “Semper Eadem” for a short while which became Elizabeth’s motto meaning “Always the same.” If true it kind of says that although Anne was never mentioned by anyone animal, vegatable or mineral in court after her head was lopped off, Elizabeth must have been told something about her mother to want to adopt her mother’s motto as her own.

I guess it would be something like “Was it all worth the hassle?”
Tudor Fan. I think we can all answer that one, yes she did, she gave herself up body and soul to Henry, and he betrayed her love and broke her heart as well as her neck so to speak.
IMO her death was the biggest travesty in history, but also the most memorable, not because she was the first Queen to die this way, but because she sacrificed herself to save Elizabeth, and that she committed suicide (loosely worded) rather than live the life that K.O.A did, as the cast off forgotten, unloved and unwanted Queen.
Rumour has it that Lard arse offered her, her a life if she went abroad and took Elizabeth with her. If she had done that hers and Elizabeth would have ended upon Edward’s birth anyway if not before. With Anne being abroad with Elizabeth, it would have been easier for Henry’s assassins to get the job done quickly and quietly and no would be none the wiser. If she had stayed in England they may have been whispers if someone newly arrived in a little villiage suddenly died.

Hello! Happy New Year 2014!

My question to Anne Boleyn would be -“was it all worth it?”….I think a lot of people ask that question.
Anne Boleyn’s life was so twisted it seems…..this day and age I can relate to it as a sort of sexual harassment case mixed with her father pushing her towards the predator that was psycho king henry viii, mixed with what could be a case of Beauty and the Beast syndrome – there was no way of her to escape this, so I wonder if she put in her head to love king henry viii because there simply was no other choice for her.

I also really hate how psycho king henry viii got Hever Castle too :/ far out, take Anne Boleyn’s life as well as her family’s possessions (that Castle had been in the family for soooo many generations!)…I guess that’s why I’d ask Anne Boleyn if everything that happened was worth being Queen of England for such a short amount of time.

I guess it really was a huge gamble- Anne Boleyn risked it all for getting to the top. She got there (I mean who doesn’t wish to be Queen for a day or two, LOL!), but the horrible part is that she fell down so quickly….did she enjoy any of it at the end?

Kind regards
Kaz

Thanks for the comment Boleyn

It does sound like a cult, living a Court life!!……to me its like a workplace but with grand significance (ruling a country as opposed to selling a product for example). It does make sense that if you were a titled person then the property you own belongs to the crown…..

Guess what dream I had last night – I think I was watching too many Anne Boleyn youtube vids but this is the first time I actually dreamt something Anne Boleyn related – I dreamt I was one of her ladies in waiting who cried and cried and cried upon her execution, and while sobbing I was one of the 2 ladies-in-waiting who carried the arrow chest with Anne Boleyn’s body into a dark Church, the tiles were dark red in colour…I just remember crying while carrying the chest (the other lady in waiting was in front and the Church was dark and empty, except for the light shining in from the wooden door) and I was trying to do the sign of the cross to the chest and give Anne Boleyn a proper final prayer but I had no idea what I was saying but I tried my best while I was super emotional! Far out!

I wonder how many of us have had an Anne Boleyn dream, this was totally my first!

Kind regards
Kaz

Thank you Louise.
I knew I’d got a little muddled somewhere along the line, LOL. either way faceache ended up with Hever. Am I thinking that Mary was given Blickling hall? I know she had a small inheritence from T.B.
How’s the book going by the way? It’s hard work I’m sure but I’m also sure it will be a very good one too.