Natalie Dormer Finds Out More About Anne Boleyn
Posted By Claire on May 27, 2009
Fellow Anne Boleyn fan, Kimberly has just posted a great video on her blog and I just had to share it here. In it, Natalie Dormer retraces Anne’s steps in the Tower of London with historian Tom Stammers.
Natalie visits the apartments where Anne was imprisoned, sees Tudor grafitti, learns more about Anne’s behaviour and visits St Peter ad Vincula to see the tile that marks Anne Boleyn’s burial spot. It is a moving video and it’s obvious that Natalie felt a real connection to Anne.
I really hope you enjoyed it. I thought it was appropriate to post it now as we have been discussing Anne Boleyn’s execution and her final resting place.
By the way, Kimberly, who pointed out the video, is a novelist who is currently writing a novel about Anne Boleyn. If you’re interested in historical fiction (with a twist!), you should check out the first chapter on her blog – it’s excellent! She tells me that she’ll be posting the second chapter soon and I’m dying to read it - click here to read it now.
Thank you everyone for all your recent comments, emails and the questions that you’ve posted on the Q&A page. As you know, I love hearing from you all, debating and chatting about our heroine, Anne Boleyn. I’m always eager to find out more about her (that’s my quest!) so feel free to add your knowledge as comments on pages and posts. Thanks!
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Hello Anne Boleyn Files,
I’m so glad you enjoyed this video as much as I did.
Thank you so much for all your hard work on this
labor of love and for mentioning my work-in-progress.
Yes, chapter 2 ,’The Hidden Passageway’ will be
updated on my blog very soon!
Be back soon to check in and read your next post.
Thanks, Kimberly! I’m so excited about your book. What an inspiration Anne’s story is. x
Still sad to ‘relive’ her execution. The execution episode was oddly the only single episode of The Tudors that I had seen before. And it is still raining in London when they visit where the scaffold would have been. I wonder where England’s reformation would have gone if Anne had lived, if there had been no more wives for Henry etc. Anne was smart and young and she still would have had more years to bear children if Henry had given her a chance and wasn’t such a fool to listen to Wosley!!
How interesting to see your website,
I thought I was the only one with a Queen Anne Boleyn obsession.
I visited the tower of London on the 19th of May this year, the date of Queen Anne Boleyn’s Execution, as I wanted to see the mystery floral tribute that comes every year.
I understand well what Natalie Dormer felt in that short video.
From first reading the text of queen Anne’s final speech as a boy in school, I looked in disbelief at the page, how could some one express such Love for the one who cut short her life;
“Masters,
I here humbly submit me to the law,
as the law hath judged me,
and as for mine offences,
God knoweth them,
I remit them to God,
beseeching him to have mercy on my soul, and I beseech Jesus,
save my Sovereign and master the King,
the most goodliest,
and gentlest Prince that is,
and long to reign over you,
To Jesus Christ I commend my soul…”
It was also so sobering to read the text of the Tower Green Monument;
“ Gentle visitor pause awhile
Where you stand,
death cut away the light of many days
Here, jeweled names were broken
from the vivid thread of life
May they rest in peace while we walk
the generations around their strife and courage
Under these restless skies”
I visited Saint Peter ad Vincula and saw the floral tribute, found the church to be spriitually at ease even with the tragic lives scarcely remembered and buried underneath. I felt saint Peter’s to be a peaceful place and offered some prayers for Queen Anne and the others who rest there.
I have some pictures of the floral tribute, if you wish, I can send them on.
Paudie K
Hi Paudie,
I’d love to see photos of the floral tribute – please send to claire@theanneboleynfiles.com. How fantastic to have visited on May 19th and I’m glad that you felt that the chapel was peaceful.
Claire x
i was thrilled to find all the info about anne.
i am so glad to know i am not alone in my obsession and love for her
i wish i could see her in person and have a chat!!
i have been to england 3 times and i am praying and hoping to go again.
this time with my teen grandson and grandaughter.
from one loving anne boleyn and the tudors!!
mary cleland
columbus ohio