Anne Boleyn - Second Wife of Henry VIII Documentary

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[@PeopleProfiles]

Hello everyone, we thought it would be a good idea to remaster our old Anne Boleyn video before releasing our extra-long Six Wives of Henry VIII compilation this coming week. After that, it's back to normal with more Monarchs, Nazis, and other interesting figures from the pages of history! We hope you are all well! The Team.

[@jodeeps2287]

I enjoy and appreciate your excellent videos. I don’t know why but the Tudor period is one of my favorite times in history.

[@Sovjetski-]

your videos are excellent, maybe you can do a remaster on the sun king of france?

[@BigMamaDaveX]

@@jodeeps2287 .👍🏻..same here! Loving all things Tudor!

[@jodif916]

Love the Tudor era, thank you, you can learn so much off your channel, I look forward to your documentary. Regards from Yorkshire.

[@gonefishing167]

Thank you, I’ll look forward to that. Love your videos , they’re all so interesting 👍👍👍👍👵👵👵🇦🇺🇦🇺

[@michaelsinger4638]

Anne kind of got the last laugh in the end in a way. It was her child who would be remembered as one of England’s greatest rulers.

[@dowlml]

That’s what I’ve always thought as well!! She did leave her mark for sure and the fact that Elizabeth never married and reigned on her own without a man makes it the revenge so much sweeter and then passed the crown on down to The son of the woman that was killed her in her name. I don’t believe she really wanted that to happen but she also knew it was Mary or herself. I actually love the way it all played out after that!! Karma is a something else!!

[@chykim1]

Yes, yes, we know...we know! Whenever there's a video about Anne, Elizabeth is thrown into the discussion... Dig deeper and you'd find out Elizabeth I wasn't that great of a queen...

[@wednesdayschild3627]

Other than being genetically related, Anne didn't really raise her daughter because she died when Elizabeth was a toddler.

[@amandadean3948]

Ann was a harlot and reaped what she sowed. She was very cruel to both Catherine and Mary.

[@lindabarry7867]

Elizabeth had the last laugh because she ended the Tudor line her father had her mother killed for.

[@creamdelacreme]

My heart aches for Anne knowing she died likely worried about the fate of her daughter and little does she know that she did, in fact, become queen and was one of the best and most remembered monarchs in history.

[@MellyOnMakeup]

She knows now 😇

[@Tim_ra]

I don't feel that bad for Anne. She was pretty vicious to the queen-- And to Mary.

[@reggaevankramberg1649]

She definitely knew when Elizabeth 1 become queen..Im sure of it🙏

[@melissaandrews8446]

@@Tim_rashe didn’t deserve to have her head cut off. Especially when she was innocent of the charges against her

[@YourGrace_06]

She was cruel. I do not feel sorry for her at all.

[@louannlasher3748]

Anne was a victim of a stalker. Henry pursued her relentlessly, while Anne tried to evade him; retreating to Hever. When she realized the King would not relent, she began to reevaluate her possibilities and accept them.

[@pianorelaxingmusics]

I mean ok, but then why was she so rude to his first wife and first child....

[@CherryLipgloss1000]

What choice did she have? Acknowledging Catherine and Mary, would have meant the most she could ever be is a mistress - her reputation would be tainted all her life. She was put in the position she was in by the abusing stalker Henry and vulture power grabbing men in her family… she had to make the most of it for her own sake - even if it meant being ruthless. Let’s not blame Anne for making the best of her very limited choices. Let’s blame Henry and those powerful men who used her, abused her and ultimately murdered her.

[@trawlins396]

​@H. Fritz exactly. People want to paint Anne as a victim so bad.

[@trawlins396]

​​@@CherryLipgloss1000 oh stop. Anne was ambitious and wanted to be married to the King. Stop making excuses for her just because she's a woman!

[@trawlins396]

​​@@CherryLipgloss1000 NEVER holding a woman accountable doesn't make you a good "feminist.. it just makes you incredibly bias.

[@AnneBoleyn10]

I feel really honored to have a entire documentary about myself. Thank you for that!

[@abereseissca5948]

Is this really true?

[@gamingvyxxin]

@@abereseissca5948 Yes.

[@Angie2343]

It's a beautiful documentary, your highness.

[@mariascreven1433]

an entire

[@Christianne-md2nd]

🙌👏🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@deb-1558]

Apparently Anne never had disfigurements and moles. These rumours came about after her death

[@wht-rabt-obj]

Many, many years after her death. And by a Catholic man, who disliked her.

[@simplystreeptacular]

@@wht-rabt-obj Nicholas Sander. Basically everything he ever said about Anne was a lie.

[@awsome182]

I was a bit disappointed that this was stated as a fact here in this video. A quick research shows what you, Queenie 1559, mentioned: these claims were made many many years after her death to paint her in an even worse light.

[@cherrytraveller5915]

You are correct. No marks were noted during her lifetime. All these comments about marks came into note by men who hated her some twenty years after her death. Henry would never have gone after Anne had she had any of the marks mentioned on the KZbin video here

[@Smeekstut]

It’s funny how they thought women couldn’t rule when in fact they ruled better and longer than most kings 👑

[@rionfortney7509]

I feel as though Anne was trapped. Henry was obsessed by her and she was powerless to do much if anything against him. She turned his obsession into power. While I don't agree with with what happened to Katherine I don't think the blame can be placed solely on Anne for what happened. She did what she could in a time when women had no power and tired to make the best of what was happening around her and to her. While she was cruel to Mary I understand where she was coming from on wanting her submission and also trying to cement her daughters position as heir.

[@shannonswanson4219]

Of course not, what power did she have to say no to the king. She left court to get away from him.

[@samanthasmith61]

@@shannonswanson4219 and he cut her head for it!

[@Michelle-tv3tp]

I agree 100%. If you read the book “500 Years of Lies” it really helps show the real Anne and this is part of it.

[@mimihiko7470]

Well to be fair, unpopular opinion as it is, Anne was never the villain in the story. None of the 6 wives ever were. It was only Henry. Henry was a spoiled brat of a king and not really as fierce as portrayed. He was obviously always manipulated by those around him using his lust for women as a tool to gain power.

[@SkullyX99]

Anne put herself into the King's trap. Anne didn't take crap from anyone and that's why Henry killed her. She could of said no and moved on way back with the letters. She chose her fate.

[@zehandle]

Always thought that Anne was very misunderstood and demonized. She was basically manipulated by King Henry who was so enamored with her. Not saying she didn't ruin Henry and Catherine's marriage but she's always the main person in the situation that gets blamed for what happened it seems.

[@amandadean3948]

I agree to an extent that she was railroaded by Henry-but what I dislike most about Anne is how cruel and disrespectful she was to both Catherine and Mary. By accounts she enjoyed the humiliation they both endured.

[@elisabetta611]

@@amandadean3948 Accounts written by her arch-enemy Chapuys who MAY have been biased. Just a tad.

[@elisabetta611]

She didn't "ruin" their marriage, that marriage had been troubled for years way before Henry fell for Anne. He considered divorcing Katharine YEARS prior to meeting Anne as well btw.

[@chinavaughan6383]

Anne B. did not ruin Henry’s marriage. That was Henry’s doing😒

[@elizabethm888]

It was completedly Henry's fault😉

[@jazzfebo609]

It’s clear from Anne’s prior relationships that she never plotted or planned to marry King Henry. Why would she, he slept with her sister and likely fathered her children. How could Anne say no though and ruin her family and future. I think she did the best she could. It’s so terribly sad it all came down to having a son, imagine.

[@aprilgosa5779]

I don't think she plotted or schemed to be with Henry but I think she sincerely fell for him and was also not willing to be his next side chick I think she was encouraged by her dad at the beginning and of course her uncle sold her out to save his own skin

[@aprilgosa5779]

she did try to escape hsi affections but I think he wore her down Ido think she loved him and tried to be a good wife

[@lindleloverwatterson3484]

​@@aprilgosa5779 I agree with all except that she loved him..I don't believe she ever really was IN LOVE with him, but I think she grew to love him in a way that was true and sweet but not in love. How can anyone possibly fall in love with a man who used his power to force a relationship that she never wanted. And his history with her sister?? I could never even be attracted to someone who's been with my sister and she feels the same in reverse, it's gross and weird,

[@lindleloverwatterson3484]

​@@aprilgosa5779 Anne is innocent and righteous in all her actions. She made the best of what lift slopped onto her plate, doesn't mean she loved him, wanted to cast Catherine aside or take the throne. She literally had no choice because henry was king and what the king wants the king gets, Anne was just a pawn and she played her part beautifully.

[@JenaEmerald]

I always thought Catherine of Aragon was the most royal, dignified, betrayed and disrespected royal lady ever. I’ve wondered if after her heart was broken so deeply and so often and constantly stressed and humiliated for his ego that she’d succumbed to cancer. She was abolished for getting older, not giving him a son, and being better than him in the past. The kingdom loved her and knew she’d been cheated. Divorced unfairly, shamed, disgraced, mocked, placed in a rotting mansion with no chance of ever seeing her only daughter again. Just the thought of it hurts my heart. She was a regal and true queen. She deserved so much better treatment. This abuse of Catherine in every unfair way leaves little wonder why her daughter would have been famous for her revenge on anyone who agreed with Henry VIII. Tragic.

[@maizie7036]

nobody cares. this is about Anne, not Katherine. go cry for her under her own KZbin documentary.

[@JenaEmerald]

@@maizie7036 take some pamprin and have a warm bath. Feel better soon.

[@maizie7036]

@@JenaEmerald i feel fine xx don’t be bitter because your comment is irrelevant to the video

[@JenaEmerald]

@@maizie7036 I’m not bitter just commenting about your toxic comments. Feel better soon.

[@maizie7036]

@@JenaEmerald it’s not toxic to say that under a video about Anne, nobody cares about Catherine. It’s like going to the zoo and asking to see the king of England.

[@dianekeane7740]

I'm always taken aback by how a woman's "ambition" is to this day seen as a deficit in her character. With men, ambition is not questioned; only the degree of ambition is remarked upon. Women are capable of the full range of human characteristics and desires. Considering how limited and restricted their lives were and continue in many respects to be, it is quite the achievement to even have any ambition under the tentative circumstances.

[@aelinorholloway3669]

As an ambitious woman myself, I can safely say the number one reason ambition is seen as a deficit in women is because ambitious women are not easy to control. Along with ambition comes strength and independence, qualities that men often dislike in women. The amount of men who become agressive and controlling the minute I express the desire for anything aside from marriage and children is depressingly common. It all boils down to one thing control.

[@dianekeane7740]

@@aelinorholloway3669 I very much agree!

[@miriampborne]

I always admire Anne Boleyn viewing her as a very modern woman who would have felt much more at home in our time as a strong and independent minded woman, both intelligent and highly educated. Likely a woman who could have run for high public office today. She, like her daughter Elizabeth and earlier Eleanor of Aquitaine stand out as heroines far ahead of their very patriarchal times

[@eviepoulis79]

So well said, I agree entirely!

[@corinneeisenman1268]

I agréé as well, Anne was a determined, strong woman.

[@lindleloverwatterson3484]

Anne Boleyn today would be the first female president. She had such a great intelligence and quick wit that she could charm a lion out of its meal and still make the lion think it was happy and in charge. Shes iconic for her own time I couldn't imagine the impact she could have on modern times.

[@8teezy]

I don't. The cruelty with which she treated her sister is absolutely appalling. Especially because she did the exact same thing. But oh no, it's a crime when Mary does it because her husband wasn't a noble.

[@demondogmom7221]

I think Anne believed what Henry told her about his marriage to Catherine of Aragon, and assumed it wouldn't happen to her. It was her first marriage, her first committed relationship, and she was probably sure of her hold on her husband. After all why would he ever cheat on her? The original "once a cheater always a cheater"....

[@demondogmom7221]

@Lina S I agree that Catharine got treated horribly. I think the luckiest of his wives was Anne of Cleves. What a blessing he didn't want her.

[@ladythalia227]

Had Henry not executed Anne and constantly terrorized his future wives, thereby scaring Elizabeth off marriage, Henry would then likely have had the royal grandchildren and future monarchs to carry on his legacy that he so craved. But why are you portraying Anne as if she had a sixth finger? Her body has been dug up and did not have any such deformities. This is old Tudor propaganda spread by her enemies.

[@leanie5234]

If Elizabeth had married an "important" man, her children would not have been Tudors. People always talk about the end of the Tudor dynasty....James I was crowned king of England because of his Tudor ties, not just because he was king of Scotland. Because his great grandmother (Margaret Tudor) married a king (James Stewart), their children became known as Stewart/Stuarts.

[@noelletakesthesky3977]

It would have been nothing to snip off a newborn's sixth finger, though there'd have been a scar.

[@ladythalia227]

@@noelletakesthesky3977A sixth finger was a story told to demonize Anne by her catholic enemies. It’s laughably obvious. Henry would not have married a woman with a witchy defect, even a scar.

[@smithamy1982]

​@@noelletakesthesky3977true but she never had a sixth finger, it was a rumor that started when they tried to make her appear to be a witch after her death

[@noelletakesthesky3977]

@@smithamy1982 I didn’t say that she had one. I was pointing out why it wouldn’t make sense to claim she was going through life with a sixth finger. It would have been very easy to literally cut it off of a newborn rather than to do nothing.

[@rocioaguilera3555]

Anne Boleyn was intelligent, brave and knowledgeable. That's why she had lot of enemies. Accusing her of incest was an outrage. Henry VIII was an uxoricide sociopath. I loathe him.

[@van7242]

I had to look up Uxoricide!😁 That's a new word I've learned. 👍

[@helycrisea8189]

@@van7242 Uxor means wife in latin.

[@aprilgosa5779]

Henry was a selfish Narcissistic Psychpathic Sociopath all of those he was plain evil

[@stacythomas9916]

What has always fascinated me was Henry's complete lack of logic. If a time machine were such a thing I think it would be truly fascinating to question him about this catch 22: On 17 May 1536 the marriage of Anne Boleyn and Henry was annulled by Cranmer. This means that in the eyes of God and the public H&A were never married at all, as opposed to a divorce where there was an actual marriage that had later ended. So after the annulment Anne would have been nothing more than some commoner woman who was a temporary mistress of the King. How then could she be executed for adultery only 2 days later on 19 May? Adultery against who? How can you commit adultery if you were never married to begin with?

[@Ozzierob]

Anne is my 16th Great Grand Aunty and Henry my 16th Great Grand Uncle :). Got to love history :)

[@aliferrari1680]

Anne must have been an extraordinary and remarkable woman. She captured the Kings heart and kept him at bay for several years shows her determination and ambition and intelligence also. Because of her and the then Pope in not granting Henry's annulment to his marriage England saw the reformation of the church causing upheavals in English society. The resentment Henry must have felt after Anne failed to give him a son changed Henry's love to hate as he reflected the enormous risks he took in behalf of her, tearing the church down, and judicially killing his friends like Thomas more and the people's hatred against Anne and in his mind her not showing sufficient gratitude in elevating her to be Queen. I am not surprised instead of annuling the marriage Henry decided on trumped up charges against Anne, including witchcraft as to lay blame on her for all his actions he took. Henry th 8th was a complicated, insecure, paranoid character of a man. After her execution his cruel nature became more apparent in the coming years.

[@aprilgosa5779]

@aliferrari1680 wasn't exctly his heart that was consumed with her it was lower than that LOL he was obsessed though the man was incapable of actual love except himself of course

[@MarianaCarvalho-gu8zx]

He felt threatened, acting from the ego as a woman showed capacity to lead as well... maybe.

[@robbiet8583]

That is my thought, as well. It’s far too convenient as the charges always put Henry VIII in position to be blameless. In his own mind anyway.

[@fronny5787]

Wonderful documentary. May I add that Henry Percy fainted when Anne was declared guilty and had to be carried out of court and that Anne's eyes and lips moved as her severed head toppled into the basket. As for Mark Smeaton I have always believed that he stated he deserved death because he lied about his relationship with Anne which never existed beyond his desire for her. That he never retraced his confession, made under torture, I believe was because he was offered beheading as opposed to being hung, drawn and and quartered. He was just a young, frightened boy and death was inevitable. That's just my take on it, of course

[@kimberlymcdonald7405]

Anne and her sister was used by their father and uncle for financial gain, titles, and position from the king. 😡Mary was already married when she was summoned to court as a fake gift to the queen and to be his mistress. By the time the king noticed Anne she had already secretly married a Duke. Her father and uncle quickly annulled the marriage citing the Duke was betrothed to another woman prior to his marriage to Anne. Anne did not want Henry because he had a son with her sister and discarded her, so she left court. Henry stalked and pursued her relentlessly with gifts. Property and titles was given to her father, brother, and uncle. ( Henry was sure Anne would give him a male air because her sister 1st child by him was a boy) Also, once it got out Henry wanted to make her his queen she no longer had any other marriage prospects so she conceded…. History villainizes her when really she was a victim. 😢 Queen Catherine held no animosity towards Anne because she understood women had to rights especially if you did not have royal blood. I did a paper on her life in college there is more but I’ll stop here 😊

[@tracycameron5099]

I have always been fascinated by Anne. Such a tragic but heroic and diverse life. I think she was ahead of her time.

[@SilhouetteSE]

Anne was beneath Henry Percy in terms of rank, but noble enough to marry the king himself... How does this work exactly? 🤔

[@ladyofnoxus6733]

she caught Henrys attention and challenged him (fine for a mistress, not the best attributes for a Queen.)

[@ellenyoung8283]

@@ladyofnoxus6733 Henry elevated Anne's status, Marquis of Pembroke, I believe. She then had status as this title became hereditary with land and income attached to it.

[@aprilgosa5779]

@SilhoutteSE Henry wanted her and he always got what he wanted that simple

[@SilhouetteSE]

@@aprilgosa5779 @aprilgosa5779 Yes 😉 @ellenyoung8283 explained it really well, too.

[@kellykane7586]

@@ellenyoung8283I think Anne was the last and only one to hold the title Marquis of Pembroke

[@goddessofwar8916]

If Anne had given birth to Henry's long-awaited heir, she will live much longer and had the chance to develop a good mother-daughter relationship with Elizabeth. Her outburst with Henry's dalliances seems a pretty normal reaction for anyone who caught their husband in an adulterous affair, during those times women were supposed to look the other way and be accepting of their husband's affairs. Anne was highly intelligent but sadly her superior intellect didn't save her. Henry was too cruel not too annul the marriage, instead allow her to be executed for false charges.

[@vintagegal541]

Hi Phoebe! I totally agree with you. If Anne had a son or two, she would have been in Henry's good graces, but he still would have had that wondering eye. I think that she was under so much stress after having a daughter and seeing that Henry was losing interest in her, it contributed to her miscarriages. I've also seen a couple of documentaries, I think one was by Lucy Worsley that suggested that Henry's health issues also contributed to his wives not being able to bring a pregnancy to full term in most cases. I can't remember the causes. Heck, I've watched SO many documentaries and read so much, it does get a little jumbled. There is an historical trilogy of novels about the Boleyn's by Laura Anderson. I found the 2nd novel, "The Boleyn Deceit". I couldn't really get into it, but it is about Anne having a son, Henry IX and his reign as King of England. I'm just passing it on in case you may be interested. Have a blessed day! 🌷

[@celinahatton2653]

Do you mean if she had birthed a male prior to birthing Elizabeth?

[@goddessofwar8916]

@@celinahatton2653 yes her 2 sons

[@celinahatton2653]

@@goddessofwar8916 who was the father of the sons?

[@goddessofwar8916]

@@celinahatton2653 Henry VIII of course, about the accusations of adultery obviously it was cooked up. After the birth of Elizabeth, Anne became pregnant twice but both miscarried. If one or both of her sons had live and survived to adulthood, Anne would never lost her head.

[@annemaclean6634]

That's brilliant, I do love all your documentaries especially the ones concerning the six wives of Henry VIII, and other Royals so interesting. Thanks so much for uploading - look forward to the compilation in due course.

[@el_aleman]

I’ve watched documentaries and programs for years on the Tudors and have noticed a common denominator that exists today: the backstabbing, jealousy, envy, narcissism and political manuevering that occured in Henry VIII’s court still occurs in the power circles of the contemporary workplace today. Be it government, industry, academia, medicine, military, whatever. Humans in power positions seem rigged to see others as either threats, impediments or opportunities for personal advancements. I think Anne entered a Tudor shark tank of such people who through birthright, felt entitled to everything Henry and his court had to offer. Anne did very well at first, but soon her luck and advantages wore thin and the sharks closed in for the kill. The closer one becomes to power, especially as an outsider, the closer one becomes to this threat.

[@miriampborne]

Yes Trump came to mind as I look at the machinations he also has gone to to look innocent and get his way. Rather than trying via the Church, Trump uses the legal system to get what he wants. He also uses the church to appeal to his base of White Christian Nationalist. Thus playing that game too. Both are tyrants and narcissists.

[@asmrbyjo8484]

One of the most iconic female figures in history

[@chamilajla]

She and Diana will remain immortal in the history.

[@Marielita426]

The rumor that Anne had a 6th finger and a mole have been debunked. Those rumors started years after she was killed by someone who wasn’t alive at the time she was Queen. Also, if she had had those features, do we really think the incredibly superstitious and religious Henry VIII would have married her? I’m very disappointed you’ve mentioned this at the beginning of your video

[@astroterf.]

Agreed, it's a ludicrous suggestion Almost laughable that people say 'she wore long sleeves to cover her sixth finger' - they really think Henry never saw her naked?!? As those things were so heavily considered a sign of witchcraft in those times there's not a cat in Hell's chance he'd have married her 🤦🏻‍♀️

[@VCYT]

Who here like to take a time-machine back then an get to meet her for real ?

[@Maw0]

Me!

[@reneenayfabnaynay5679]

I would. But, I'd make sure all my shots were up to date. So many diseases back then!

[@Maw0]

@@reneenayfabnaynay5679 Smart choice.

[@van7242]

You know those questions people ask for fun, like, if you could invite anyone from history to a dinner part who would they be? I always say Henry VIII and all six of his wives. It would be the best party of all time.😳

[@reneenayfabnaynay5679]

@@van7242 I love that!

[@onagaali2024]

Anne Boleyn was railroaded into making look like she was guilty for execution so the King had to make up a reason to get rid of her. Henry appropriated her condemnation from the lies and intrigue of his court members. This event I think was his expediency to cause for 3rd marriage to Jane Seymour. The 486th anniversary of her execution is in 3 days. Anne Boleyn was innocent. She had too much prying eyes around her to have done those adulterous acts in such a short time.

[@pierzing.glint1sh76]

Today, 19th May, 486 years ago. Under her daughter the greatest and began the largest empire the world had ever seen. Remembered fondly and had a far greater impact on the world than that terrible human being that was Henry viii. He was basically useless, drained England's coffers and sowed the seeds for decades of religious violence and instability. He left England a far poorer place than he found it. He was just a bad ruler in every way.

[@lindabarry7867]

Indeed. Henry ordered the French Executioner two days before the culmination of her trial. She never had a chance.

[@onagaali2024]

@@lindabarry7867 know that, that nearly sounds like act of attainder.

[@lindabarry7867]

@@onagaali2024 iIndeed.

[@asiasmith6294]

Let’s also factor in that she was recovering from her two miscarriages.

[@SkullyX99]

Anne knew better. But she thought she could get ahead through King Henry. She took no nonsense from Henry and it got her killed.

[@astardustparade]

I’ll listen to anything this guy reads. He has a soothing voice.

[@kathrynjordan8782]

I get a kick that it would be Anne's daughter who would be remembered as one of England's greatest monarch. What is sad is that Henry chose to believe the accusations against Anne and chose to execute her. He wanted a son and heir which he got when he married Jane.

[@shelleydaly1726]

Anne would not have had much choice. What the king wanted, he got. There wasn’t really a way to say no that wouldn’t have hurt herself or her family. This is all on Henry

[@nonmihiseddeo4181]

There are KZbin uploaders, who posit that Henry sustained traumatic brain injury(ies) during his jousting accident, and that his personality changed as a result of chronic traumatic encephalopathy. Add to that diabetes caused by overeating and drinking wine sweetened with lots of sugar, the painful neuropathies attendant with diabetes, his ulcerous leg that never healed, and the ravages of normal aging. All of these are thought to have contributed to Henry's decline into tyranny.

[@senkakulenovic856]

Your videos are absolutely delightful! Thank you very much for effort, great visuals, storytelling, research and especially for excellent narration! I could listen to him all day! 👏👏👏❤

[@vintagegal541]

Hello The People Profiles, First of all, I have to tip my hat to Dr. Jacqueline Elliott for her research and teleplay. The second is to Gareth Johnson. His narration is easy to understand and is precise. Thanks goes out to all of the behind the scenes crew who bring these documentaries to fruition. Now, regarding Anne Boleyn. I have seen so many movies, TV series (not The Tudors or Reign) and read many books and articles about her. My opinion is much like Dr. Elliott's. I don't think that Anne was "looking" to become involved with Henry at all in the first place. I think that she felt that she would have been fine being married to someone a little higher ranking that she was. However, Henry's persistent and ardent pursuit of her, she possibly felt that she couldn't get away from him in the long run. She tried, but being "unattainable" just made him chase her more. Gee, that seems to happen quite a bit. I think that she finally gave in and then she saw her opportunity. I can't blame her for not wanting to be a discarded mistress as her sister was and Bessie Blount, plus a few others. Isn't this an age old story, older wealthy man (10 years in this case) pursuing younger attractive woman. The circumstances are timeless. Thousands and thousands of women did and still do the same. Anne's family couldn't marry her off since she had caught the king's eye. What options did she have? Could she have fled to the Continent? Probably not. So, she went for it. I'm just sorry that her story came to the end that it did. I do really think that Jane Seymour was not as innocent toward Henry during Anne's lifetime and afterward as history would make us think. I think that Jane seeing the situation was a schemer as Anne has been accused of being.

[@tarjakangas6681]

Anne had no choice but to marry him and she kept her honour and got discarded,Henry the 8th was a cruel man

[@aprilgosa5779]

she had little choice but I do believe she loved him and tried to be a good wife and he betrayed her just as he id Catherine of Aragon the only reason she kept her head was she was a Spanish Royal but what he did to her and Mary was worse than even death

[@hollymarks1125]

I do not believe that she ever had relations with those men or her brother I think that that was all brought on to bring down her fall

[@joanna7098]

Most of Anne Boylen's fangirls would detest her if they knew her in real life. Both she and Henry were case studies in narcissism.

[@svteenostalgia]

there are greater sins, also at that time, doesn't even surprise me

[@mohammedpanju2236]

EXCELLENT VIDEO which was extremely informative and as well as delightful to watch. Thank you very much for uploading.

[@anagriffin2486]

I love the story. At the end Anne gave birth to Elizabeth the most popular queen of England.

[@Oturtlegirl51]

Ann did what she had to do in a man's world. My heart always goes out to her because I know how it feels to be with an indifferent man whose interest is waning, and the grief and desperation that Ann must have felt as her power slipped away. It's a sad story.

[@samanthasmith61]

i hope your man cheated on you and my heart goes to the woman your man cheated with!!! Anne and Henry are both garbage, cathrine is the real victim here

[@sylvaingautier4312]

Je souhaite vous remercier pour les sous-titres français de ce documentaire. Je suis un mauvais anglophone, mais m'intéresse à l'histoire anglaise. Cette version sous-titrée me donne accès à votre histoire nationale, et à une de ses pages qui m'intéressent beaucoup. Merci à vous!

[@t.m.i.1245]

He is a narcissist in my opinion. I don't think he loved anyone but himself. Once he was finished using someone he discarded them. I dont think Ann would've lasted had she given him 10 Son's. At some point he would've tired of her after he got what he wanted anyway and probably rid himself of her. Also his illnesses and STD issue didn't help his mental health any. He was already a pretty cruel & harsh man. Mary was crazy & blood thirsty too.😬

[@Dpurple28]

What std issue?

[@sheilatruax6172]

Part of Mary's problem was her treatment at her mother's "fall from grace" by her father. Being a precious, beloved daughter to a "bastard". Being treated with, barely, off-hand tolerance. Usually with contempt and slurs and other suchlike, would mess up any child. Allowing no balanced persons around her. Even then, she was more of a pawn than her mother. More like her cousin, Mary of Scotland. I have put all of her problems in Henry's lap. I never have called her "Bloody". Study of the society, in the wider Europe, as well as England, would show she wasn't unusual for the times.

[@nessagirl1911]

​@@Dpurple28 It is suggested that Henry VIII might have had syphilis.

[@RobinSmith-de2zl]

@@sheilatruax6172o 16:56

[@user-pn1tf8mg8c]

You’re telling me, dear! It’s me Anne! Lord bless!

[@LauraLetz-pu6rd]

I’ve always found it interesting that the daughter of a beheaded queen would pass the crown to a son of a beheaded queen. And her sister Mary’s genetic line sits on the throne now from his Scottish grandmother. Keep up the good work, looking forward to more videos.

[@MisterTutor2010]

It would have been funny if Anne had as her last words "Jane, I hope you have a son otherwise I'll be seeing you soon." :)

[@princessrevenge]

Anne is actually born in 1507. Gareth Russell, on his blog “Confessions of a Ci-Devant” explains why. “Examining all the evidence impartially it is impossible, I think, to accept that Anne Boleyn was born as early as 1500 or 1501. Any piece of evidence that has been put forward to support the idea that she was born at the turn-of-the-century can be refuted, once common sense is applied to the problem… Independently of one another and with absolute certainty, Jane Dormer and William Camden both stated that Anne Boleyn had been born in 1507 and to my mind there is no evidence whatsoever that has yet come to light which contradicts them.”

[@wednesdayschild3627]

The pope was correct. Henry had a daughter. She could be and was Queen.

[@elanabethfariss117]

I feel that there was a lot of here say surrounding Anne’s personality, her supposed unchaste nature. Records show that she was very bitter over the meddling of her relationship with Henry Percy. She did not want involvement with the king, as she would have the knowledge of what had happened to her sister. I’m not saying that she was an angel, but she was a woman of faith. That part about her having an extra finger as a witches mark, c’mon really. No one wanted to make the king angry, so it was wise to step lightly. I feel sorry for anyone who Henry set his sights on.

[@tinkdust1632]

So very happy to have stumbled on this site. The narrator has just the perfect voice, I could listen all day!! Greatly researched, and told. Thanks ever so much!!❤

[@namaschu2126]

Thank you for this interesting documentary. Anne's life is fascinating and full of tragedy. A strong, clever and amazing woman. It's a shame what happend to her at the end🏰👑💎💌📜

[@kittylover62]

Do Charles II of Spain next! I've really taken an interest in the House of Hapsburg recently and would like to know more about them

[@saragrant9749]

Another victim of a man who was more demon spawn then king.

[@Sunflowerrainy]

Hearing about how she wanted to laugh in her final days even when knowing her death is unavoidable makes me respect her a lot. RIP.

[@betsyelee4434]

My friend in Illinois would love ❤️ this video!She”s into this kind of history!I”ve learned to like it,too!The history of Anne Bogylnn.

[@katrinamoran1209]

Why are you promoting the rumors of an extra finger and large moles as credible likelihoods?

[@chrismac628]

love these so much!! subscribed !! and the narrators voice is just absolutely beyond perfect - so never mind thank you for watching - thank you, for creating :) 🩵

[@louise-yo7kz]

Excellent presentation

[@CissyBrazil]

It’s so interesting how a lot of research has to be done in order to present the information to us!

[@MellyOnMakeup]

"Perseverance, you are my prisoner now."

[@Dexter32]

Great documentary!

[@tarjakangas6681]

Anne Boleyn was an inspiration,it was not her choice to become queen and she desperately tried to give him a son but it was Henry who determined whether a child born be a boy or girl, although in those times,they did not know this,I think his fall and unconscious unconscious state made him a tyrant

[@jobes4525]

Anne didn't, and never did have six fingers, or warts. It was propaganda used to condemn her even further. Read Eric Ives, and Claire Ridgeway, expert of The Anne Boleyn Files.

[@elanabethfariss117]

Indeed, they have done much research and are very careful to report factual historical accounts, gotta love Claire Ridgway.

[@barbiblansett921]

Henry was the evil one.. He betrayed Kayherine of Arragon He used Mary, and I believed she loved him. Even gave him 2 children. Then he sees Anne and lovebombs her. When she didn't give him a son he moves on to another woman...he was a narcisstic man who also had power which we know he used for his own selfisish desires.

[@aarondemiri486]

totally forgot that she wasn't done but now the series is complete very good job

[@Bitsy2019]

I assumed Anne was already covered but I guess that’s just because I’ve watched so many other docs about the tudors!

[@aarondemiri486]

@@Bitsy2019 ahaha same

[@HG-jl9yv]

These documentaries keep me sane, they always show that no matter what you encounter each and every day ......history has done it all before!

[@splinterbyrd]

"These dances of hers will prove such dances that she will spurn off our heads like footballs, but it will not be long 'ere her head will take the same dance." SAINT THOMAS MORE of ANNE BOLEYN

[@annezack-tg2gv]

I was innocent my Elizabeth will be my revenge and my golden world in my afterlife and my head will be worth it

[@angeliapittman4776]

I felt so sad for anne boleyn how her life was destroyed by lies.

[@kadeelacayo4806]

I don’t know how this got in my suggestions but I love it lol I usually not too interested in English history . But your voice is wonderful and this is very interesting. I’m listening while doordashing

[@eeeccc3562]

Mmmm...no, her holding out on the king does not exclude a previous affair, it merely means that given who and how the king was, the goal was bigger and she needed to be astute and play her cards right in order to get there. Thomas W was just someone to have fun with.

[@michellecrocker2485]

What accounted then for her Ill treatment of Mary? We can’t say it was all because Henry was abusive. She was her own person and the choice of how to treat her stepdaughter was entirely on her

[@in_vino_veritas7938]

Yes. Anne seemed petty and argumentative, imo. She didn't deserve to be executed but her lack of kindness did her no favors

[@michellecrocker2485]

@@in_vino_veritas7938 how much do you wanna bet that when she sent that last apology via lady Kingston, Mary was like “too little too late, B--“

[@in_vino_veritas7938]

@@michellecrocker2485 we'd win that bet for sure, lol

[@hothotheat3000]

She is my favorite of the wives.

[@misscriss80]

"The only downside was that he was already married" That is an understatement, lol.

[@jenniferbrooks3777]

Love this channel! Ty

[@b.lessing]

Henry having a mistress "struck Anne like a thunderbolt"? Lol. How did she expect faithful loyalty when they courted whilst he was still married? 😂

[@iwatchDVDsonXbox360]

I think Francis I and Henry VIII could be a good couple for "worthy adversaries" or something like that. A lot people put Francis I and Charles V as rivals, but i think main rival Charles was Suleiman.

[@brendabarillaro4165]

my answer to the final question would be maybe, a little bit of both. I care positively about Anne Boleyn's attention to trying to redistribute seized estates back to their communities.

[@edwardrodgers9383]

Anne Boleyn saw an opportunity and she grabbed at it: the other five courtiers were caught up in the incident however, and lost their heads. Henry required a son to carry the line of seccession - however, this was not to be, and Anne became Anne without a head. To my mind the punishment was far too harsh if she was guilty - but in that era it was not.

[@Weiyinglou]

they found her corpse. she didnt have 6 fingers on one hand.

[@osonhodeleon]

A crazy real story. Great documentary as always.

[@MidnightAndLuna]

From what I understand, the statements about a sixth finger and mark on her neck was propaganda. She had a lot of enemies before and after she died, one of the main reasons being Henry leaving the Catholic Church to marry her.

[@user-gd3xy2vl1s]

So much has been written about Anne but the fact is we know very little about her. Even what she looked like is debated. The most used portrait (the Hever Rose portrait) bears no relation to the Holbein sketch or her Most Happy medal let alone the portrait ring Elizabeth I commissioned. Anne is reimagined by every generation and remains elusive.

[@ks7601]

Have you done a documentary on cnut the great?

[@chipmunkpark8826]

In the end, she won🤷🏻‍♀️

[@debrakleid5752]

Can’t help but wonder what Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn would have felt upon Elizabeth 1 becoming queen regent of England since women were not seen as regent material. She had one of the longest reigns until Queen Victoria and then Queen Elizabeth II (if I’m not mistaken. I’m not from the UK). Her reign was seen as the “Golden Age”. Anne I’m sure would have been so proud but not sure what Henry VIII would have thought since he wanted only male heirs to become the monarch and he assumed his son Edward VI would have gotten married, have his own children, and become King with his male children succeeding Edward VI but Edward VI died at 15 and never got the chance as he was so Ill towards the last 6-12 months of his life. Now that we have healthcare that we now have the life expectancy is much higher. Look how old Prince Philip got to before he died at 99 and Elizabeth II dying at 96 and her son the now King Charles III who didn’t ascend to the throne until he was 73 years old which I’m sure was unheard of in Henry VIII’s time. It makes me glad to have not been around during these timeframes when you never know if someone who didn’t like you would spread false rumors destroying your life and even possibly being brutally tortured or executed. Queen Elizabeth I wasn’t a saint by any stretch of the imagination as she did apparently have some of Henry VIII temper but wasn’t nearly as bad and wasn’t in it to execute everyone. When she signed the death warrant of Mary Queen of Scots she didn’t want the execution carried out unless there was absolutely hard evidence that she was trying to overthrow her, have her executed, and so on. She apparently didn’t want the death of a fellow monarch on her hands. Apparently after a rebellion happened to try to free Mary and get her on the thrown, members of her court hurried to have Mary the Queen of Scots executed as soon as possible while they still had a warrant that was valid for her execution. Apparently Elizabeth I was LIVID! I would love to spend 1 day as a fly on their walls if we could turn back time to see for ourselves what life was like for the royalty, nobles, and the commoners. I’m sure it will make people see things very differently!

[@solsticebaby]

To clarify: Elizabeth I was not queen regent. She was queen regnant. History and Tea time with Lindsay Holiday does a great video on the different types of queens: regent, regnant, mother, and dowager.

[@jumaris28]

Queen Anne my favorite one , after 500 years still very well alive and loved💕 ❤throughout movies , books , documentaries and so on !! 🌹 👸

[@ninzozz]

I think the high amounts of stress and pressure she was under had a big part to play in her miscarriages

[@user-dt9qc5uv2m]

Excellent

[@izulka75]

Anne has ambiotion to become someone significant but I think she was pushed into Henry's arms by her father Thomas and her uncle Duke of Norfolk.She would be better off if she would stay in France at the Queen Claude court or if she wouldmarry Henry Percy.

[@vchild]

Fascinating even today.

[@samjill5427]

Good video but anne boleyn never had a mole or extra finger that was made up after her death by people who hated her .am big anne boleyn fan

[@hallew.k7360]

I don’t care for the way this documentary seems to portray as if she had actually done the things she was accused of when it was obvious they were trumped up charges as he married Jane not even a week after beheading her… Although I do enjoy the documentary and believe it’s a good one, as well as good dating and good citations

[@dianacooper-havlik4115]

Excellent!!!

[@christineelsbury5479]

In my ancestry it says Ann was married to my direct ancestor Sir Henry Heydon. Would the kings sir name be Heydon

[@smithamy1982]

My husband and daughter are descendants of the Percy family. It's crazy to know the love of her life is related to my husband. Henry Percy loved her as well, and was physically ill when he had to condemn her to death and then died within a year himself.

[@lucyeaston109]

Why does she have to be either pure and loving or a calculating sinner?😂 Anyway, I think as a woman at that time she did what she could for a better life. Who cares whether she loved him, he certainly didn't love her. What an evil man

[@user-pn1tf8mg8c]

Thank you for letting the world in 2000s know about my past! This is me, Anne Boleyn! Thanks to my daughter, loving Elizabeth, took my reign and made it better.

[@kimberleyheadland927]

Hello thank you for this video………… I personally feel sorry for all six of Henry’s wives… but Ann Boleyn Is my favourite of all of his wife’s she is extremely intelligent graceful fashionable and very strong willed. . I would say she was pretty .. basically Anne Boleyn was a woman way ahead of her years . she was thrown aside just like his first wife Catherine of Aragon for not producing a male heir but Ann Boleyn gave England one of the best Queens ever to rule England Elizabeth 1 ………..Teresa Ann 🇬🇧