What if Anne Boleyn hadn’t been executed?

I think Anne could well have proved to be a menace had she been allowed to live, her religious leanings meant there could well have been factions rising up in her name it was a very unsettling time and yes, I believe her life could have been at risk during the reign of Mary Tudor, she would no doubt have escaped abroad like many of the Protestants did during Mary’s reign only returning when that queen was dead, why Henry V111 executed her we will never know but the wide spread view is that he wished no shadow queen to come between him and his third marriage, he wished the legality of his union to Jane Seymour to be absolute and binding, that he had once loved her to distraction and turned the kingdom upside down to possess her makes her death all the more shocking, and she was a healthy human being in her prime, no matter that in Tudor times she was seen as quite old, by the law of nature a woman in her mid thirties is still young and capable of childbirth, that she was queen for only three years is proof that Henry V111 had grown very very impatient due to the frustration of the lack of a male heir, after a few years of rest and bodily healing Anne could well have given birth to a healthy baby prince, but Henry V111 had waited seven years to marry Anne and she had failed in her promise and her duty, time was not on her side as it had been for her predecessor and therefore she had to go, by being the first queen to be executed she made history and yet ‘what if’ is the phrase we frequently use in our language, Anne after having the awful death sentence passed on her was soon ‘in hope of life’ after a visit by Cranmer, so would one be when one is facing darkness and then a glint of light is seen on the horizon, she said to her women she hoped to go to a nunnery and although a life of spiritual bliss would have been alien to her nature, she was extremely pious and would have been thankful she had escaped the scaffold, away from the intrigues of the court she would have regained her peace of mind and yet would have yearned to see her daughter, her loss of status and a discarded wife meant she had fared no better than the kings first queen , in fact her circumstances resonated with Katherine, deserted by lord and husband with a daughter in tow, Henry and Cromwell would have pondered on the matter of Anne Boleyn and the impact of her being allowed to live, it was too risky she had supporters at court and in the country, yes she had been unpopular with the majority but she was seen now as a martyr to the evangelicals, she had been crowned and parliament had passed a law making her queen and the kings true wedded wife how to undo all that? Urgently he wished to marry Jane Seymour and her son to be his heir, Elizabeth had by now been stripped of her title of princess but she was not the problem it was the mother, one can see that death was the only alternative and so this living breathing woman was doomed to have her very life her existence cut short just to satisfy the machinations of a paranoid restless king and his evil minister, she was a very controversial woman extremely intelligent and over bold for a woman, they both feared her presence during the kings twilight years, her memory would have made him ill at ease during the honeymoon period and married bliss with Jane, and how she would have laughed on hearing of Janes demise and his anger over his fourth wife, Henry V111 is famous for executing many, loyal friends and adversaries but Anne Boleyn is his most famous victim, what I find fascinating to contemplate is her relationship with her daughter, when Elizabeth became queen how she would have danced for joy, yet how long would she have lived had life not been taken from her ? No doubt Elizabeth would have welcomed her mother to court and yes I to can see her like a Margaret Beaufort figure, very helpful but maybe a bit bossy and prone to intrigue, but she would have inspired deep love in Elizabeth for her cultured mind her sophistication her academic brilliance which was on a par with Elizabeth, I can see them debating with many scholars of the day just like when Anne first came to court, Henry V111 denied both mother and daughter that love and that closeness.