Anne Boleyn's Fall and Execution - Talk and Q&A with Claire Ridgway

[@ladyagnes7781]

How could anyone believe she wanted to kill the King?Her predecessor was dumped, isolated, & left to die for not having a surviving son. And Catherine was popular with the people! Anne was not safe until she was the mother of a healthy prince. She needed Henry around(& his protection) until at least she had a healthy boy. How could anyone believe(& her Uncle was on the jury) she wanted to harm her best chance?

[@lesliemcelveen8318]

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[@theclassicso8094]

I missed the live presentation. I love the portrait of Anne Boelyn and the necklace you are wearing in her honor. When I watched "The Six Wives of Henry VIII" on television back in the early 1970s, I was touched by the fall of Anne Boelyn. I did a presentation in my 8th grade English class on Henry VIII and his six wives. Anne Boelyn was my favorite of King Henry VIII's wives. Thank you so very much for your presentation.

[@aprilsnow7798]

I think its funny the portrait of Anne, the one behind you in this video, you have said in other videos you believe this is the closest to what she actually looked like, because when I look at then I see younger paintings of Elizabeth 1, which you would assume would resemble her mother in some ways! She got alot of her beauty from her mom💜

[@TheTam0613]

Thank you so very much, Clare. I honored AB's death yesterday, like I do every year. Thank you for making Anne Boelyn a very real, nuanced woman whom I heartily admire. You've been such a big part of that.

[@cindyrobinson3077]

I am so sorry I missed this live! But it is so interesting. Thank you for doing this Claire! Henry wanted and gone from memory but look. .. she is still remembered and loved by so many

[@pollydolly9723]

Lovely Claire and Tim! Each time you speak about Anne’s execution, my heart breaks again. Thank you for the new, familiar tears 💔🇨🇦

[@jobes4525]

Thank you Claire. I think I held my breath throughout the entire discrimination of her death. My stomach hurt. So touching. X

[@jumaris28]

On her Anniversary.. again my heart ❤️ bleeds .. unthinkable was she had to endure on such of short time unexpectedly, at the realization of the horror upon her , she came to her senses , accepted her destination with great bravery and gracefully As hard as it must been 500 + years she still cvs very much love and remember forever Queen Anne Boyle in our hearts 💕❤️💕❤️💕 Thanks again Claire greetings from California Her legacy lived on with her daughter Queen Elizabeth 1 .. What an Irony and a slap on the face of the Tyrant Fat Henry

[@jennifereusterman]

Does anyone know how Anne's mother found out about her execution? How awful to have 2 children beheaded like that.

[@la_gima4464]

Unfortunately I missed the stream but watched it late at night. Very interesting and educational. More Q&A please 🙂 I could listen to you for hours! best regards 🌹

[@gill8779]

I missed the live chat! but just finished watching & it was so good, hope you do more of these Claire. Off topic but have you heard the songs by Karliene - Winter Rose (from The Ballad of Anne Boleyn .... I have this album of songs, lovely.

[@wendychavez5348]

I'll have to look that up! My partner is a musician, and I can imagine he'd be fascinated!

[@VintageView]

Thank you, Claire! You are wonderful and we all feel blessed to have you and Tim! ✨You are a very humble, learned, accomplished scholar and author and are so appreciated.

[@carag2567]

Thank you so much for this, Claire! Such a nice tribute to Anne. I also wore my B necklace yesterday to honor her. I think I'd also ask her when she was born and when Mary was born so we could finally know the birth order of the Boleyn siblings.

[@memex31963]

Im finally getting to watch you now... had to work until 5:30 EDT. Your dedication to sharing Anne's truths are just wonderful! Havent been to England in 25 yrs... would LOVE to go back.

[@wendychavez5348]

I'm running 4 days behind on my viewing, and am waiting to get my new glasses so I'll have to pause this very soon, which I prefer cuz I'm less likely to miss anything.

[@eliselastname843]

Thank you so much Claire. I am a bit late, but have been listening (on Audible) your book the Fall of Anne Bolelyn and love it.

[@AshleyLebedev]

Thanks so much Claire, so appreciate this channel and all you and Tim do. 🧡

[@Odanti]

Excellent and Outstanding, Claire and Tim. Claire, You keep getting better doing the live feed. I liked the calmness you gave out while speaking, saying hello to people, keeping up with all those question. Wow. You are my favorite channel for Anne Boleyn. ❤️🙏❤️

[@regina3743]

Thank you so much for your mission of clearing Ann’s name. Excellent discussion this evening (in America)!

[@debbielb2325]

Enjoyed this Q&A so much! In regards to the B necklace if you look at the William Scrots portrait of Elizabeth I, that she sent to her brother - if you look at the necklace, it looks very similar to the B, with the three pearls and gems in the empty spaces of the B? I often wondered at its similarity.

[@marianneeichler648]

Just watched video Nov. 22, 2021. Great episode. While you described Queen Anne walking up the stairs I got a shiver. It is hard to understand that there was no alternative, or escape for her from this dreadful end.

[@lindacartwright5100]

I love your talks so much. My daughter and I just love Tudor history. We visited Hampton Court 2 years ago on a tour led by Susannah Limpscomb. It was amazing. We both would love to take part in your Boleyn tour. I need to get saving but I would love to give it as a gift for my daughters birthday on 16 May at some point. Do you plan to do these tours every year in the future?

[@margaretsieger2862]

Sorry I missed the live. Excited to watch. Thanks Claire.

[@leticiagarcia9025]

A couple of weeks ago I saw a video on KZbin from Panagiotis Constantinou. He’s a photograph artist that can bring old portraits and busts to life. He did Tudor family. Henry, Anne and Elizabeth. It was stunning seeing them come to life. The only problem is that he used the portrait of Anne that’s behind you. Isn’t the picture on the Moost Happi metal a more accurate representation of her. If so, do you know of someone that can do the same using the metal? It will be nice to see the real her. I love the advances in technology. Thank you again for the live stream. It was lovely.

[@SF-ru3lp]

Delighted to discover your channel Clair. I am a history fan from Ireland. I was lucky to have a very good and broad education in history. I follow it up any way I can. Thank you. Fascinating work you've done. G Ire

[@andreaedwards8644]

Informative and interesting as always Claire. Hope you and Tim are well. x

[@cindyscott7623]

This is wonderful ! Give us more!

[@eponassongequinechannel2491]

Sad I missed the live stream, but loved listening to this. I hope you do it again

[@sandraswannell4170]

Pity about the buffering. It was frustrating missing chunks of sentences so not getting the full answers to the questions. In spite of that a most enlightening stream with you answering each question thoroughly with your astounding knowledge of a very fascinating subject, Her Majesty QueenAnne Boleyn. Thank you so much from an Aussie devotee.

[@venkataraghotham7586]

The Frrnch executioner had been appointed even before her sentence

[@Jossianne19130]

How horrible!!!

[@AshleyLebedev]

Sadly true 😕

[@raechelsnead908]

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[@robertkirkpatrick4935]

I thoroughly enjoy your videos on my great grand aunt. Since finding out I'm related to her I've been mesmerized by her story

[@Lyndell-P]

🇭🇲🦘 Whilst I watched this event 'live' - I was so pleased to be able to watch it again. Many thanks for making this all possible. Very special. 💞👍.. It was absolutely 'FABULOUS' ! "Thank you" so much Claire and Tim 😎 and Teasel 🐕 in the background, making sure we all knew she was there too. All your efforts much appreciated and you looked lovely Claire, and (as always) spoke so well. 👍 ... Also thanks for your answers to questions asked in 'chat' . "A BRILLIANT PRESENTATION CLAIRE"❗

[@elisejohnson7194]

Hello from Atlanta Georgia ❤️❤️❤️

[@ellendelaney8109]

I have that necklace of Anne Boleyn from never castle looks very nice and thank you for the questions and answers very informative as always.

[@Dawnsdelightsart]

It's so strange that a Queen wouldn't have so much details about date of birth documented somewhere

[@nostalgia545]

Seriously. You’d think it would be somewhere, it has to be recorded.

[@dianethompson8564]

Anne was a girl therefore her birth was not recorded in the family Bible. Only a son was important enough in Tudor times to be recorded.She also was not " royal" at her birth like Catherine of Aragon.

[@Sabrinajaine]

Yeah, or maybe some reference to her having a birthday and getting gifts in the three years she was Queen?? Unless they just didn't really celebrate birthdays back then, idk

[@daver8521]

Sorry I couldn't watch this live. But better late than never!

[@carriec9317]

Thank you Claire! Really enjoyed this 🥰 and you look fabulous! It was nice for all to join and remember Anne on this day. So sad:( but I think she was as brave as a lion and amazing woman . Also why is Anne Boylen your favorite Queen? Just curious

[@kazoolibra7322]

Thank you, clair!! I love this

[@sandraswannell4170]

The waiting must have been excruciating. Then to have it delayed !!!! Knowing that you’re innocent too. Imagine the stress. What an amazingly strong woman. Can you see Harry and his wife being so stoic in the face of there own demise. They’d not shut up whining about it.

[@anameadows7247]

Loved this Q&A. Thank you 😊😍

[@timramsey5800]

God bless Queen Anne and you

[@judywallace9009]

Awesome video! So enjoyed it!

[@parisjones2875]

Everyone always blames Cromwell but I believe that Charles Brandon may have had a major role to play as well, yet he doesn't get half as much stick

[@DM-ps4oc]

Wonderful and very informative 👏

[@judithp.1313]

Is it true that her attending ladies were not very close to her and were placed with her to more or less watch and listen to what she was doing and saying in the tower? But in the end we’re quite moved when she went to the scaffold?

[@ronahart219]

I used to live near Rochford, Essex, where Rochford Hall, a manor of the Boleyns, still stands. Lovely countryside and easy to reach from London.

[@monicaluoni4148]

Thank you very much Claire

[@melusine832]

I remember reading a story about Anne when I was a child and since then I have been just absolutely obsessed with her and Henry VIII

[@rose-marieclarke6206]

This was so educational thank you so much

[@aggyanubis5211]

I love your videos 🌷I’m a fan of Ann Boleyn and love Hever Castle and Hampton Court Palace ❤️

[@melissatrent8409]

I know your live is over, but i am so curious to know exactly what inditmentd were and what findings were used to persuade so many that their are no factual evidence. For example, where was so and so during a particular event

[@Jocap24]

Hello from Perth Australia 🇦🇺

[@gonefishing167]

I’m from country south Australia 💁‍♀️💁‍♀️🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺

[@stephanieking4444]

I believe Henry VIII always had a 'tyrant side'. Said side was fully unleashed when he became head of the Church of England. Imagine what replacing the Pope as Head of the Church meant to a late medieval mind, and Henry was always a late 15th century thinker. removing the Pope made him fully 'Emperor in his Kingdom'. The full on removal of papal authority seems to cement in 1536. That's why so many people think that year changed Henry. As for the 'personality change via head injury theory'.....yes, Henry did have a jousting accident in 1536. His state caused huge concerns. That's why we have primary sources talking about it. But the notion of personality change relies on one source written by someone who was not in England at the time. Moreover...I have a friend who recently survived frontal lobe brain injury - in the first weeks following the big trauma, some of her more 'bossy' personality traits were exacerbated. She lost a bit of her natural empathy. But it didn't last. Very soon, her personality stabilised back to being herself. What changes are left now concern noise perception, vertigo. If the jousting accident did lead to brain trauma in Henry, it could not have changed his personality.

[@gracewise4720]

Please give information on the September event ! Dates? For the Anne Boleyn experience.....thank you!

[@anneboleynfiles]

It was supposed to be this year but got cancelled because of travel restrictions. I'm not doing it in 2022. Sorry.

[@NCKrypotonite33]

Clair, once Anne was executed was her body not properly prepared before burial? I also wonder If the box she was buried in was big enough for her body. Talk about a double insult....

[@joannboothby3681]

Hi Claire from davenport Florida

[@michellederus3655]

Thank you!!!!

[@pistolannie6500]

Where did u get the necklace?

[@SamL-213x]

Claire! Which family do you think was more ruthless and ambitious the Bolyns or Seymour‘s?

[@SamL-213x]

also I think it is so sad how Anne's uncle had no compassion for her or care that she would be executed

[@jillianaprati108]

Where is the B ring from? ❤️

[@potatowofie4479]

Is there any way that mark smeaton would have wanted to get rid of Anne? As she reminded him of his low status. What could you say about the phrase “a dead man shoes”?

[@AshleyLebedev]

Not likely, but what is likely is Mark being legally - because of his station - to be allowed to be tortured, confessing under that torture.

[@AshleyLebedev]

Dead men’s shoes refers to what Anne said to another while talking to him. Dead men’s shoes would mean the kings and it meant that she was saying you won’t marry another because you are waiting for my husband to die to be with me.

[@nostalgia545]

@@AshleyLebedev I always get shocked by that statement. Like why does she think she would be wanted by that man? It takes a lot of confidence to say that. It’s also implying that Henry is already close to death, because he was young at that time and so was she. Henry wasn’t close to death and by the time he would be, Anne would have been too old to have children. So no one would have wanted her then. Unless Henry was already close to death.

[@kathrynhenry1752]

Love you, Claire!

[@theresalaux5655]

Claire, how do we know for sure that the French executioner was hired before Ann's sentencing? Is there proof? Thank you very much! Enjoy your videos!

[@anneboleynfiles]

We know because of the timing. Anne's execution was scheduled for 18th May but she was only tried on 15th May so there just wasn't time for a message to be sent to Calais, be received and the executioner travel to London in time for 18th, or even 19th.

[@theresalaux5655]

@@anneboleynfiles Thank you very much.

[@venkataraghotham7586]

Thomas Cromwell probably conspired against her

[@trojanette8345]

Slightly off-topic: I've heard many times over that despite everything that happened, E I still loved her father. Hard to believe. In reality if you think about it she was robbed of a chance to have any meaningful relationship with either of her parents. I think that is why it is hard for some to reconcile that Elizabeth still loved her father after all he did.

[@karieschneider746]

I was so sad in St. Peter ad Vincula.

[@TheLhester1965]

I'm so mad i missed this! Today was a full caretaker day.

[@Sabrinajaine]

It's a shame it keeps skipping through sentences, there was one where you started with "Apparently, the Duke..." that sounded interesting, but I'll never know what the continuation of that sentence is!

[@anneboleynfiles]

Sorry, it was a live event so impossible to edit.

[@Sabrinajaine]

@@anneboleynfiles Don't worry, it happens!

[@stephaniesayers3894]

Do you believe the ghost stories about Anne?

[@stephanieking4444]

Looking forwards to Anne Mc Caffrey's article on The Anne Boleyn Files. For the time being, this article gives the gist of what stands out from the discoveries made by McCaffrey - inews.co.uk/culture/arts/hidden-inscriptions-discovered-in-anne-boleyns-execution-prayer-books-1000131

[@gullwingstorm857]

*Kate* McCaffrey. Anne McCaffrey was the Dragonriders author.

[@venkataraghotham7586]

Hi Claire

[@Sun_Flower1]

🌻

[@ninalily]

I wonder if she ever wrote to the King or anything.

[@parisjones2875]

I've always been curious, but George was married to Jane Parker for 12 years, and while they were childless, did she ever have any pregnancies.

[@anneboleynfiles]

We don't know. Nothing is mentioned in the records but then she wasn't that important. We don't even know what happened to Anne Boleyn's pregnancy in 1534 and she was queen.

[@thepsychnurse4406]

Hello

[@Thestephouse1]

👏❤

[@hannah6769]

I love your necklace I have 3! 🤣🥰

[@jackiemurphy1787]

❤

[@suziemartin3587]

Where was little Elizabeth while here mother was being murdered?

[@tinyTears]

Was there any evidence of Anne being given anything to help her to keep calm on the day of her execution ?

[@Jossianne19130]

That poor woman was a martyr!!! King Henry was never happy after that and his punishment is that her daughter was a very good Queen Elizabeth I !!!

[@dellabango4261]

Still, I find it unbelievable that Prince Harry married on that day May 19.

[@phyllisruthmick5391]

Wow! I didn't know that. I knew the Prince got married in May but didn't know the exact day. I can't help but agree with you! It somehow seems, or feels, inappropriate. Maybe that's too strong of a word? But it just doesn't seem right somehow. I wonder if it was done on purpose or was it a total accident or coincidence?! I wish that someone, say a reporter, would ASK Prince Harry and or MM! I'd be very curious about the answer! Thanks for pointing this info out! 🖖 Live long and prosper! ⚘✌💞

[@dellabango4261]

@@phyllisruthmick5391 I brought that upon the Royal Site, however, their reply was they are the Windsor dynasty, Anne Boelyn, was from the Tudor dynasty, a different monarchy. Still, sad they never knew the histories of the past Kings/Queens of England.

[@gagagoo4644]

Was Anne not betrothed to Harry Percy ❤️

[@gt777p]

According to Channel 5 Anne Boleyn was Black. Maybe they will have A White actor to portray Nelson Mandela

[@nostalgia545]

Well we know she has dark hair, dark eyes, and was tan skinned. So maybe she wasn’t fully white to be honest. We don’t know her date of birth and we don’t know much about the Boleyn family beforehand.

[@gullwingstorm857]

@@nostalgia545 Don’t be ridiculous.

[@katharinereynolds25]

Hhahahahahah this channel really. Makes me laugh

[@phyllisruthmick5391]

How rude! If you don't like it then you don't have to watch it. You can NOT click on it very easily!

[@gullwingstorm857]

Katharine Reynolds - you’re a disturbed individual.

[@gerardmartin781]

Fake fake fake ... bs history

[@gullwingstorm857]

Get off the drugs.

[@gerardmartin781]

@@gullwingstorm857 hey I looked at your profile....its you who's on drugs haha ...unbelievable that you would call me out ...you twonk

[@gullwingstorm857]

@@gerardmartin781 Ah, so you’re a stalker then. Creepy little man as well as a history denier.

[@gerardmartin781]

@@gullwingstorm857 hey ...check out old world star cities ...that's history worth investigating...