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If I could go back in time and give Henry VIII a piece of mind, I would… well, perhaps not. It might not be safe to do that!
The speed of events in May 1536 never fails to shock me, and the speed with which Henry VIII moved on to wife number 3 disgusts me. Whatever his involvement in Anne Boleyn’s fall, to get a dispensation to marry wife number 3 on the very day Anne was executed is unseemly, and then to get betrothed the next day… Well, it just leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
I know that I’m looking at it with my 21st century values, but 16th century people were shocked too. Henry VIII had to reassure Jane that he was taking action regarding a pamphlet that had been published deriding their relationship while Anne was still alive and imprisoned in the Tower, and Chapuys wrote of gossip about the king and Jane. It was just as unseemly to Tudor people.
Here’s my video talk on this day in 1536:
And you can read more about the king and Jane’s relationship in my article here.
To celebrate the release of her second Anne Boleyn novel and to commemorate the anniversary of Queen Anne Boleyn’s execution, Natalia Richard’s The Falcon’s Rise: A Novel of Anne Boleyn is a kindle countdown deal at 99c or 99p from now until 22nd May.
Kindle countdown deals are available on Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.com and you can click here to find Natalia’s book on your country’s Amazon site. If you don’t have a kindle, you can still take advantage of the offer – just download the free kindle app from Amazon. I use it all the time on my PC and tablet, and it works really well.
Book 2, The Falcon’s Flight: A Novel of Anne Boleyn is out today on kindle and in paperback, so you can completely immerse yourself in Anne’s story! I’ve read both, and I thoroughly enjoyed them. I do love how Anne Boleyn is inspiring historians and novelists over 400 years on.
Huge congratulations to Natalia on her new book. Find it here.
Today, I will be raising a glass to Queen Anne Boleyn, who was executed on the morning of 19th May 1536, and also to all those caught up in those awful days in May 1536. Poet and diplomat Thomas Wyatt the Elder was friends with a few of those who lost their lives that May, […]
It’s the 19th May and we’ve come to the day Queen Anne Boleyn’s life ended at the hands of the Swordsman of Calais, but really at the hands of her husband, King Henry VIII. ‘Anne of the Thousand Days’ was executed by beheading on a newly built scaffold within the confines of the Tower of […]
Thank you so much to Natalie Grueninger for inviting me to take part in her “All Things Boleyn” series of podcasts for Talking Tudors. Natalie is a dear friend and my favourite subject is Anne Boleyn, so I very much enjoyed this interview – some great questions. The interview is available on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, […]
Queen Anne Boleyn’s execution was scheduled for this day in 1536, 18th May, and the queen actually wasn’t told that her execution had been postponed until later that day. Can you imagine how that must have felt? How did Anne prepare herself? Why was her execution postponed? What exactly happened on this day in 1536? […]
On 17th May 1536, Queen Anne Boleyn may have still had two days to live, but, for the accused men, this was execution day. Mark Smeaton, William Brereton, Sir Francis Weston, Sir Henry Norris, and George Boleyn, Lord Rochford, were executed by beheading on Tower Hill on the morning of 17th May 1536. They were […]
On this day in history, 16th May 1536, the day after her trial, Queen Anne Boleyn was visited by her good friend, Archbishop Cranmer. Following his visit, the queen was suddenly optimistic about her fate and seemed to think she might receive mercy. What on earth was going on? Find out more in this talk: […]
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