Didn't Anne believe that prophecy where she would be burned?

“The “prophecy of Marlin” refers to the prophecy of Merlin (16th century people couldn’t spell)*. These prophecies were printed in Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Book of Merlin in his Historia Regum Brittaniae. The book first appeared in the 12th century and chronicled the history of the Britons and the predictions of the wizard Merlin from the Arthurian Legend. One of these prophecies foretold that Henry should take power from Rome, ‘root out from the land all the razored skulls;’ and should neither spare, “man in his rage nor woman in his lust.” (2)

Another popular prophecy might have come true if Henry had followed through with the harsher punishment for traitors of burning. This prophecy, whose origins are unknown, predicted that a queen of England should be burnt at the stake. After the honeymoon phase had ended with Henry and the happy couple started to bicker, Anne might have taken this prediction more seriously. In an argument with Henry she told her husband that it had been said that a queen of England would be burnt but, “even if I were to suffer a thousand deaths, my love for you would not abate one jot’. (5) I wonder is she would have still felt this way with her head missing? ” From http://blog.raucousroyals.com/…..cy-of.html

I think she knew she would die, but she loved Henry still. I think if she did it all for ultimate power, death to her would be a loss, where as her acceptance of death shows she was willing to die for Henry in some way. She may have been a little rude, stubborn and haughty, but I think her heart was in the right place.

If she had been a schemer, I think she got over it early on, when she started to fall in love with Henry. Even then, she should be congratulated for going out and getting what she wanted, in a world where women were as good as their housekeeping and womb produce.