How Elizabeth I Found Out Her Mother Had Lost Her Head!

On the 19th May 1536, with the swing of an executioner’s sword, one of the most iconic women in English History lost her head within the walls of the Tower of London. Anne Boleyn is seen by many as a woman who would wreck the marriage of Henry VIII to get what she wanted, but she would herself fall sharply from grace. Anne would frustrate Henry with her inability to give the son his greatest wish, a son or a male heir to follow Henry on the throne. But this lack of male heir forced the King to look elsewhere and he began to see Jane Seymour, one of Anne’s ladies in waiting and this was an open secret. But Henry then forced Anne out of the royal apartments and moved Jane in, and Anne’s downfall was signalled with her being imprisoned in the Tower of London and charged with adultery and treason. But her execution resulted in a bloody chapter of English history being over, but Anne left behind a daughter whom the King her husband was incredibly fond of. Despite Henry never getting the incredibly strong Tudor King he wanted, as his heir and son would die at a young age, he would get this brilliant successor and Queen in the form of Anne Boleyn’s daughter, Elizabeth who would become Queen Elizabeth I. But when the axe fell upon Anne, Elizabeth was left without a mother despite being just two years old at the time. But what happened when the young princess was told of this news?