Anne Boleyn Myths - Day 3 of Anne Boleyn, the Woman behind the Myths

[@WickedFelina]

I believe we would all like to see Anne's reconstruction. She should have her own tomb also. She was faslely accused and brutally killed. She is the mother of Elizabeth I. The most memorable and powerful Monarch England ever had. We have no idea what she really looked like, and at this rate, never will. If anyone has information on how we might gather support for the reconstruction, please let us know. I am sure Anne's fans and lovers of history, would be happy to donate towards a respectful and appropriate burial in a better place than the prison where she was killed.

[@JayArgonauts]

The church of St Peter ad Vincula is a royal peculiar and under the jurisdiction of the Queen, and the Queen would never give permission for the exhumation of Anne Boleyn’s remains to satisfy people’s curiosity. I don’t think it would be appropriate to disturb her remains. Her remains were examined, I believe, in the 19th century when work was carried out to repair the church floor. There is an image of Anne Boleyn drawn by Hans Holbein which the historian Dr David Starkey believes is the image of Anne.

[@pfranks75]

7:44 am in Middle America, love your fascinating talks!

[@katherinecollins4685]

So interesting

[@deborahdidonatovalanzola9367]

I must say I enjoyed every one of the three talks on Anne Boylen. I think Henry pursued her. What are you supposed to do when the King wants his way. I also think it was sexual harrasment. I'm pretty sure it was made very clear to others to keep their distance. What could she do after years of pursuit , but to finally give in to her fate. I also would think she would have built up intense resentment towards Henry. I would be bad tempered at times myself. She must have felt so angry. She was stripped of her youth , and maybe a chance at another match. Only three years after roughly seven years to be disposed of is criminal of Henry. Loved the series and also your collaboration on the Hever book. I enjoyed it so much.

[@cynthial.seagren560]

I have enjoyed your discussion of Anne Boleyn, immensely.

[@karennugent8464]

So good! But where did you get your Anne headpiece? Fabulous!

[@edwardgroff8317]

Thank you for all you 🌿

[@Lyndell-P]

🇦🇺 🦘 Day 3 was as wonderful as Day 1 and 2. Although I watched this 'live' I wanted to Officially say some things here. Not only to Claire and Tim but ... also to ALL participants who watched, made comments and asked questions. We all follow and love these special events and Claire's many videos. Obviously 'like minded' people who enjoy learning about Tudor history. cont... "Seasons Greetings" to Everyone and I wish you ALL a Merry Christmas 🎄 and a Happy New Year AND may 2022 be much kinder to us all❗ cont... A BIG "thank you" to Claire and Tim 💓 👑 👍 "Seasons Greetings" to you both and to your beautiful family! xx

[@margaretsieger2862]

Well said. Merry Christmas to you also.

[@nancycampbell8671]

@Lyndell Seasons greetings to you all as well! I agree, Claire and Tim are gems that I feel lucky enough to have stumbled on. This little, or not so little, community of like minded people that they've gathered here is such a gift.

[@maureenmcallister2393]

You have to wonder if Henry was more about the chase. He got her and made her his queen but she was only in his good graces after that for a short time. He certainly "turned on her" at the end, but how much before that was their marriage in trouble?

[@pollydolly9723]

Like you, my love of all things Tudor began with a school project when I was 12. We were studying Shakespeare and Elizabethan social studies. First book I read on Queen Anne was The Lady in the Tower. At that time there was also the BBC series The Six Wives of Henry VIII that showed here in Canada. Thanks for speaking Anne’s truth Claire ❤️

[@AshleyLebedev]

The Lady in the Tower was a great little work

[@prof.cecilycogsworth3204]

Looking forward to more of this excellent series.

[@alisonmcnamara800]

Happy Christmas, Claire, thank you for being an Anne Bolyn-ophile! You were one of the only really good sources back in the beginning of my need for truth in all the movies and shows that, always, failed to really capture a real woman

[@ellenyoung8283]

ANNE OF A THOUSAND DAYS, is a marvelous interpretation of Queen Anne, many agree it's one of the best.

[@BlackCatMargie]

Thank you Claire. I have enjoyed this series very much. Was not able to watch it live, unfortunately, but it was just as good several hours later! Have a fabulous festive season, and all the very best to you and Tim for 2022. 🎅🤶

[@fairwfriend]

Thank you!

[@hjahansouz]

So Henry was trying to get rid of Ann. Was he mad at those other men too? How did he justify killing four other men and her brother?

[@ellenyoung8283]

It was a brutal era, just mentioning that the King could die was treason and punishable by death, much more so convicted of sleeping with his wife. In this case, none of the nobles, including Queen Anne's brother, George ever confessed even knowing they would be put to death, the commoner Smeaton was repeatedly tortured into a specious confession. Cromwell chose his victims to protect himself and consolidate his power. A true GAME OF THRONES and much of the evidence also concludes Henry was directly involved. An historical kangaroo court and serial killing of innocent persons, tragic.

[@wcfheadshots240]

You look very lovely today, Claire!

[@Sarah-il1lz]

Asked for a couple of your books for Christmas 😁! Can’t wait to get them!

[@julia.carino]

This maybe be a little off topic but I love your headband!! Where did you get it?

[@pheart2381]

It even looks a bit Tudor.

[@pheart2381]

In my 1888 copy of mrs Beetons household management theres a lengthy passage on the examination of a wet nurse,not just by questioning but physically in a way that would be classed as assault by modern standards. Tudor superstitions were still active even in the Victorian era!

[@nancycampbell8671]

@P Heart Really!? This is a slice of domestic history that I have zero knowledge of. It's those things that give us a glimpse into their everyday existence that flesh out an era and turns historical figures into real people.

[@bethjanellerhoades7104]

Thank you for this wonderful series. I thoroughly enjoyed this. Wishing you all the best. Be well and be blessed ❤

[@Blossom13745]

Did Henry Percy attend Anne’s coronation? And is it true he wrote a letter to her via his friend James Melton?

[@rycoli]

You look beautiful🥀 👑 I love the headband.

[@kimberlyperrotis8962]

Anne was too smart to have risked her future by having sexual affairs before her marriage. This absolutely ruined a young woman’s future life, her only choices would have been the convent, if her father would pay the dowry, or living on in obscurity as, grudgingly, being a disgraced member of her immediate family. She wouldn’t even be allowed to dine at meals where guests were present. She would be given only minimal room and board, if that, while often expected to serve as an upper servant to the rest of the family. When her sister Mary married and poor man, her father refused to give her any help to survive.

[@njgrandma3519]

Thank-you for this wonderful online event. It inspired me to order two of your books!

[@maureenmcallister2393]

in regards to not recording female DOB's wouldn't dates of baptisms or christenings be recorded within the Catholic church records?

[@pamelamorgan7354]

I recently read that there was a document written in Old French that indicated Henry VIII expressed regrets over his treatment of Anne Boleyn. What are your thoughts about this?

[@kristydawson5578]

Where can I buy your head band?

[@AshleyLebedev]

She did not change the name. The name changed her. ☺️😊 For better or worse. Thanks for this event x

[@AshleyKornacki]

what was the name of the book about courtly love? did anyone catch it?

[@anneboleynfiles]

The Tudors in Love by Sarah Gristwood

[@kimberlyperrotis8962]

Some “characteristics” are passed on in the breast milk, babies get a lot of their immune system from the woman who breast feeds them, it’s only partly genetically derived from the biological mother. Character traits, no, but they were probably sensing something of the biological fact that a sexually promiscuous wet-nurse would be more likely to pass on a STD to the infant. Often such intuition is beneficial, if not for the reasons we think at the time. Like taking children with incipient rickets out to get some sun and giving them extra milk, it helps by increasing Vitamin D and calcium levels.

[@joshuabell5580]

Was Henry the fair Lady to Annes Knight in their courtship? The idea of that dawning on him made me laugh also duckies?

[@QWERTY-ri5yw]

Your Alice band, cute ☺️

[@kimberlyperrotis8962]

The other possibility for the 1534 pregnancy is that she had a miscarriage, it doesn’t have to be a phantom pregnancy or a stillbirth. Henry’s “doubts” could have been almost anything, like a failure for the quickening to occur in the fourth month, not just that she wasn’t really pregnant.

[@anneboleynfiles]

I think with her being pregnant in the January and heavily pregnant in July that it's more likely to have been a premature stillbirth.

[@kimberlyperrotis8962]

I always thought that Anne might have had what I had, but on her fingernails, which was a “double” toe nail. I had these on both small toes, it was just a sort of split in the nails. Gradually, the inner part grew larger, and the outer part grew smaller until it was just a sliver. By my mid-thirties, the splits had disappeared, but the remaining, single, nails are still a bit thick and weird-looking towards the outer edge. I think bilateral genetic “defects” like mine are much more likely, having only one side of the body affected isn’t very credible, genetics don’t work like that. If she really had an extra finger on one hand, it would have been better documented, she probably just had a weird-looking fingernail from an early injury.

[@alisonmcnamara800]

It's always a laugh at Henry that it was.his daughter with Anne who became his legacy! Anne just couldn't speed up the course of human reproduction! So sad😪 She must have been an extraordinary woman ,.so.brave.

[@gracewise4720]

Henry was a textbook narcissistic of the worse form, according to todays phycology. Even in Anne's death, she prevailed, I hope somehow Henry knows this.....

[@dalestaley5637]

Colostrum passes immunity to neonates (first 30d post birth). Breastfeeding is beneficial to the baby or babies if you deliver multiple babies.

[@lisaa.4667]

At about 48:18, the sexton of Salle Church stated that he saw an unusually large hare, which was thought to be Anne's ghost. You forgot to mention that the hare stopped, stood on its hind legs, munched on a carrot, and said: "Ah, what's up, Doc?"

[@anneboleynfiles]

Sorry, I completely forgot that bit!!!

[@ivyrose779]

Not to be rude but I instantly question any piece of information if I hear Alison Weir was the source.

[@Thestephouse1]

👍❤

[@dhg142]

What's AB ancestry?

[@pinklady3885]

I've listened intently to your dissection of the myths about Anne Boleyn. You've pointed out why you think she was a good queen. I think a lot of your pointers are trivia, Hardly worth a mention! I judge Anne, above all this trivia, for her cruel treatment of the true queen Catherine who was a truly wonderful wife, mother and queen, for many years; with the love of the people. You say Anne was a pawn in the advancement of her family; she was hard nosed enough to not benefit her family by becoming Henry's mistress; she ruthlessly encourage a married man( with a child) to discard his true wife and daughter. What about the cooked up version that Catherine's marriage wasn't true. This poor woman went through numerous miscarriages and finished up being replaced by a cunning interloper who used all her womanly wiles, with the help of her family, to catch desperate Henry. I know where my sympathy lies... with Catherine. I'm not keen on women who go after married men and fathers... are you?

[@joshuaowensjr8694]

You are completely wrong in all of that

[@ivyrose779]

Your assessment is very black and white. People are complicated. One thing I really disagree with you on is it being Anne’s fault Henry left Catherine. First of all, Henry was the only of those two who was responsible for his marriage. Your comment seems to blame Anne for forcing him to leave her. He was Henry VIII for god’s sake. He did what he wanted. Second, Henry was already trying to get out of the marriage before becoming infatuated with Anne. Third, in the beginning Anne was not interested in Henry and even left court trying to get away from him. She eventually developed feelings for him but I honestly don’t think she had much of a choice once he set his eyes on her. Her treatment of Mary definitely wasn’t great and I do agree that she wasn’t as much of a pawn of her family as many people believe. I don’t think her father was happy that the King had taken a fancy to her, at least in the beginning. The point is, though, people are complicated and history is full of nuance. Don’t fall into the trap of putting people in boxes.

[@susanmiller9388]

Without glasses you look so fatigued. I hope you are staying well and not coming down with something! Always enjoying your videos.

[@anneboleynfiles]

This was my third day of talking from midnight until past one am so definitely fatigued!

[@suziemartin3587]

Henry was a tub of lard. How could he father anything, some. How. He did. Because he wasn't always a complete tub. But. There were only three that survived.

[@SafetySpooon]

The "rationale" I have heard is that if Anne was going to commit adultery, using her brother would solve the problem of the baby looking like someone not Henry; if he looked like her brother, that could obviously be explained as a "family resemblance".

[@brittneyricozzi7071]

That's beyond adultery, that's straight up incest 😬 I feel like that darn movie The Other Boleyn girl helped fuel that myth for sure !

[@alisonmcnamara800]

This is the thing they used to kill Anne! It's so out of character for someone who was so pious, she was convinced of heaven and she strived to go there when she died!

[@philwilliams2505]

Shouldn't you be doing this when you arnt half pissed ??

[@LalaBee4now]

Wtf is wrong with you