If she was holding her head under her arm, chances are…I'd run. I'm not sure I'd be able to talk to the head if it's not attached to her body.  I might have a little problem with that.  If she had her head on her shoulders, I might stick around and try to speak with her.

I would stick around – and if truth be told when I went to the Tower many years ago I went several times and dragged my husband along hoping to see such a thing!  I now always tell people to go there it was one of the most amazing experiences I ever had going to the Tower and truthfully I was a little disappointed I did not see something particularly as we went in May.

Well, if there's a TARDIS involved… then I'd like to be the 'ghost', and go back to tell Anne what will happen. That, yes, Henry marries Jane and has a boy, but that Jane doesn't get to enjoy her 'triumph'. That Henry makes himself look ridiculous marrying again and again. That his son doesn't make it to adulthood. That Mary puts Elizabeth in great danger, but Elizabeth is able to escape with intelligence, courage, discretion and luck. That Elizabeth becomes Queen and is the greatest Tudor of all – that she changed our world for the better, and nearly 500 years later, she AND her mother, Anne, are still remembered and celebrated. That the world knows she was innocent. That's what I'd want her to know before her death.

If it is Queen Anne Boleyn, one must wait for her to speak to one first. Only then may one reply. And don't forget to curtsey!

Thanks, Bambaleyn! (blushes). It just kills me thinking of her despair, thinking she'll go to her grave, unmourned and without justice, worrying about what will happen to Elizabeth. Even if I couldn't save her, it would make me very happy to give her some reassurance and maybe serenity in her final days, to save her some pain and anguish.

ETA something else I've been mulling over with all of these Tudor ghost stories. I ran across something that mentioned converting dates from the Julian calendar to the current Gregorian calendar, something that happened after the reign of Elizabeth I, and it started me to wondering. So wouldn't all of these accounts of Anne's and other ghosts appearing on particular dates (their executions, Anne appearing at Hever at Christmas, etc.) be very odd? The actual dates from Tudor times are 10 days off from our times. So, do ghosts adjust their appearances to the current calendar, or should we actually be seeing them 10 days later, which would correspond to when it happened in their times? For example, Anne's execution on May 19, 1536 happened under the Julian calendar, and would correspond to May 29, 1536 under our current Gregorian calendar.

What do you guys think?

I think it would depend on whether it was an active ghost or just an echo of traumatic events, like Catherine Howard's sprint along the gallery at Hampton Court (is it Hampton? I can't remember!). Anne could very well be haunting risidually even though I believe she's moved on.

They didn't even have carriages in Anne's day, so I'm not really a believer either.

Thanks for the links, Paudie. I liked the first and third, but the middle link… I can overlook the lack of editing, but it describes KH's Hampton Court haunting as occurring in the Tower. It also says Jane Grey and her husband a.) never left the Tower after Mary's accession [true], and b.) that they were released and rearrested [not so much] – in the same paragraph! It also says she was the granddaughter of Louis XII. [facepalm] On that page, I found the story of an unseen, malevolent presence in The Salt Tower the most believable, and something I would NOT like to meet!

I'm going to spend much time browsing the other two links, though, so thanks!

I did read the ghost stories at night, and later the cat jumping up on the bed scared the bejesus out of me! LOL But then he snuggled up and I had no nightmares. Good kitty!

I'd  love to talk to Anne's ghost! I wish I could have seen her when I visited the sites she is said to haunt.