Anne Boleyn: A Queen Condemned (2023) 

Well said.

And ultimately his daughter finished the Tudor line a strong revenge for the death of her mother and a brilliant Queen

Haha that sounds like a direct quote from “ The Other Boleyn Girl.

@@suemount6042Yes, Elizabeth I was marvellous. She brought an end to the Tudor bloodline. Clever girl not to marry and carry on the mess that her father caused. Not that the stuarts were any good. The Plantagenets are my favourites.

AMEN. Elizabeth Tudor was the best Queen England ever had, period. Vindication for Anne. I wish she could've lived to see her child grow up and succeed, be the extraordinary woman she became.

I feel like she is in the middle ground. Yes, she did effectively supplant Catalina , but at the same time she had very little choice. It was either be a mistress and be tossed out in a year (something that her father pushed her sister to do and may have suggested it for Anne too, or play the risky game of being queen (a choice that she probably came up with herself or at least was very in the favor of). She had a temper and loved luxury, but at the same time was gentle to the poor and one of the reasons why she butted heads with Thomas Cromwell was due to the money that was taken from the monasteries. While Henry and his council wanted to just put it in his coffers aka his personal wealth, Anne advocated that it should be used for charitable causes for the poor and education as a whole.

Agreed. Women had it rough back then, adultery could get you beheaded.

But, she treated Princess Mary very badly.

@@Galen_G Well Mary refused to make amends when Anne offered too so their mutual dislike is both of their faults.

@@KL-ki8db Oh she was gentle to the poor alright! They adored her for murdering their parents, brothers, sisters and relatives by the 100's of thousands!

She definitely was one of a kind. Like the Black Death is one of a kind..😅

Why was she incredible

@devorah935 lol. How many women in history have inspired a king to abandon his realms established religion and become head of a whole new church, just so he can do the divorce himself and marry her? That's only one of the things that makes her incredible.

Same. I will watch every doc, listen every podcast or read any book on her ❤

And after all of that, in the end, like with the others, he tired of her. He had her killed to marry her replacement, to try again for the son he wanted. This ended in tragedy for Anne. Change the religion of a whole country to get what you want, and then throw away the reason you did it when it didn't work out the way you planned it. This is a story like no other. At that time, or since that time. I think that is part of why it is so riveting. And, of course, tragic.

👍👍👍😫😫😮‍💨😮‍💨I was fled from that court full of intriges..and hide myself on a secret place somewhere in france...!

and he loved to bang every maiden in London

@@lindyt3942 Until Justin Trudeau.

"I love you" was a threat

When Anne cooperated shortly before her death in the effort to annul her marriage, she essentially illegitimized her daughter. The only reason that Anne would have done this is because she must have believed that she would be spared from execution as a reward. What grounds for the annulment of her marriage to Henry was used?

she wanted Henry to order the execution of Catherine of Aragon and of his daughter, Mary. She was totally evil, ambitious and conniving.

Except she was a conniving bitch who got her due comeuppance and is now hopefully burning in the depths of deep hell for all the sorrow she caused to many, especially the rightful queen, Catherine

@@joeyhunter842In what way?

@@joeyhunter842 Really is that so? I don't remember him killing any of his wives.

@@KL-ki8db sure he did in that car wreck and he couldn’t wait the marry the baby sitter. Biden is a bigger pig than Henry VIII

What do you mean? Henry killed two of his wives by beheading.

And to think there are men alive today that act and think like him today.

Anne this, Anne that, she did not give birth to the greatest British monarch, rubbish, Elizabeth stole Mary's policies

"Brave and principled". She was a lady in waiting to Catherine of Aragon, not what I'd call loyal to her mistress, rather more a back-stabber. Anne was cruel to Queen Catherine and outright mean to Princess Mary. Anne was willing to commit adultery to snag the king, why would she balk at adultery to keep him? It is not unlikely that she slept with other men in her desperation to give Henry a son. That includes her brother for at least a boy would be born with a family resemblance. The brother would keep the secret because Anne's downfall would extend to her entire family.

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@@valkyriesardo278 I think that's between Catherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn. I'm not really interested in slut shaming "the other woman" from more than 500 years ago. My point about her was separate from how she came to marry Henry (which I agree, wasn't the best choice because he's a psychopath who murders women. And is also an adulterer.)

@@valkyriesardo278We already know you hate her. You have commented that you despise her several times. Just let it go.

well yeah concussions were not treated back in those days, and I think a lot of his monstrosity were stemming from that and his leg issue.

A big fat smelly one with a rotting leg

I agree. She flaunted herself in front of him, orchestrated the removal of his first wife, Katherine of Aragon. Mary saw right through her by refusing to acknowledge her as the Queen of England. Funny, she didnt believe in Karma, and it came right back and hit her tenfold. I wonder what she felt when Henry flaunted Jane Seymour in her face! I wonder if she thought of Henry's treatment of Katherine and her behaviour towards her? I wonder

And an adulteress that coveted Another Queens position and gold!

You’re both right I think if history is accurate. Two despicable people. However, she didn’t deserve the frame up and execution.

While I agree that he did it for the wrong reasons, the Roman Catholic church was extremely corrupt back then. The Pope was elected by money, not morality. I didn't know this until recently, but Queen Katherine, Henry the eighth's first wife, held a strong bond to Spain which shackled Rome to England. Her nephew was the Pope during their marriage. Plenty of people were ready for England to break with Rome.

Anne was not as despicable as you think. She never had her sights set on Henry in the beginning. She did of course flirt with him but that was common. She was in love with another man. Yet Henry wouldn't leave her alone. When she left the court to get away from him he followed her. The pressure also came from her uncle & her father to either have an affair with Henry or later to marry him. They wanted the money & power it would bring. They pressed her very hard. In those days people who refused the king anything could often be beheaded. She was afraid for her family too, that they would run afoul of the king. So she really didn't have much of a choice. @@user-fq8rs7rz3i

@@michelleprieur1 Queen Katherine was a princess of Roman Catholic monarchs! I disagree that England was ready to change religions. And no matter the religion, Anne still committed adultery with the king as well as her sister.

This channel just reuses the same content over and over... It's rather lazy and dull; watch the one on the "end of the tudors" or the one on elizabeth I and you'll be like "haven't I seen this somewhere before?" However, I'm very glad you enjoyed it as much as you did. Anne is such a tragic historical figure; I have always pitied her and Catherine of Aragon tremendously. Henry just chewed peoppe up and spit them out once he no longer had a purpose for them. It's quite pathological when you think about it. Anne had the best revenge though; little did she or Henry know, but that daughter he so badly wanted to be a son turned out to be one of the best monarchs England has ever had. She brought decades of stability and peace to a country which had been ripped apart by the Wars of the Roses and the religious mess Henry's selfishness wrecked havoc on. Granted, the religious divide was still a huge problem during her reign as well. I only wish Henry knew what Elizabeth became.

I found a great documentary, on YT, about Anne's finals days as Queen. It chronicles her from the moment she was handed the arrest warrant up to her execution. It's a 3 part series done by Tracy Borman. I found it so fascinating! I had not known before. Try to find it. It's on YT.

@@andyroo9381 I know exactly what you are referring to! I have watched it, and pretty much anything Dr. Borman has done. Very insightful! Thanks

Anne knew what she was doing because she insisted on being his wife and queen rather than one of his mistresses.

Henry planted his seed in every fair maiden up and down the River Thamas

I also have to question how much her family pressured her because they would all benefit from her relationship with the king.

@@elizabethdavis5592 Yeah,she insisted on it because she would be no man’s mistress, not even the King of England. Her faith and her culture had taught her that chastity was a woman’s greatest treasure, and once it was lost, she could never regain her status and respect in the world. If she wanted an example of it, she had only to think of her sister, who had been Henry’s short-term mistress.

​@@elizabethdavis5592any self respecting woman would not settle for being a mistress she didn't do anything to deserve her death Henry was the cause of it all he was a narcissistic Psychopath as a woman in those days I doubt Anne Boleyn could have refused Henry though I believe she did love her husband before they were together her father especially encouraged them to be a match she could not say no to the King Anne of Cleves survived only because he rejected her for looks Pot Calling Kettle right?😂

​@@Liam_Peacockwow!!

But it’s the word “inadvertently” isn’t it? She didn’t set out to change anything, apart from becoming Henry’s wife instead of Catherine of Aragon. Her attitude to Catherine and her daughter Mary - neither of whom had done anything - was appalling. Anne wasn’t a trailblazer, she was an opportunist. Pretty much like Meghan Markle, actually.

She was an adulteress that caused the murder and torture of 100's of thousand's. She is no hero!

It is not a historical account. It is Hollywood rewriting history.

​@@GradKat Well said.

@@GradKatYes, absolutely right. Anne and Henry were terrible people. I can’t help but be glad that after HM Elizabeth I , his royal bloodline ended. Not that the Stuarts were any better. But , I wouldn’t be without them. They’re so fascinating. Thank you for a great doc.❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧

She got what she wanted though at the cost of her life

Yes, genius, but nobody knew that then.

Yes, it's rather annoying.

Ugh, I know, it was driving me nuts. She says it wrong each time which felt like it detracted from the quality of the docu slightly, like it was cheaper. She probably was just a voiceover actress who doesn’t know the history and is only chosen for her voice. No historian would keep making that mistake.

I think ...AI

Yeah, I can't handle it.

Thomas Cromwell not Oliver Cromwell you confused idiot.

How do you know this is factual? That stuff was written through someone else eyes, one’s that could also be biased, that in and of itself doesn’t make it factual. You do realize the marriage between Katherine and Henry was arranged, she had actually was in love with his and married him before he would die months later. What about what befell all of these women: Jane died giving birth to the male heir, a male heir which would ultimately die during his youth, Katherine’s daughter, known as “Bloody” Mary, and yes she was that, would ultimately fall ill, without children and die, giving Elizabeth the throne and she would go on to become one of the greatest monarchs England ever had. No matter what, we all would have to say that in a way Ann Boleyn got the last laugh, not Katherine or Jane. Katherine also wanted to keep England tied to the Catholic Church, let’s not pretend she’s a saint.

Well, I don’t mind if you see it that way. You have the right to your view. But just to say, about being factual: looking at what facts we have, I feel that Anne could have said no to marrying Henry, he had a lot of other options to be honest, being King of England. But Anne happened to be ambitious, and she was also one of the first Protestant reformers, and went for Henry. She even overshadowed her own sister Mary Boleyn (a fact, taken from eyewitness accounts in letters from the Tudor court). Not only did Anne take Henry from Katharine of Aragon, she took him from her sister as well. Mary Boleyn, Anne’s sister, had high status at the Tudor court, and was Henry’s mistress for some years, she was given her own apartments at the royal court, her two children may have been Henry’s, and she could have become Queen herself, but then she disappears from the records. Next thing we know, Anne married him. Coincidence? I think not. Certainly the Boleyn family were ambitious. Then of course Jane Seymour takes Anne’s place and the records show that Henry was a regular visitor to Wolf Hall, Jane’s family home in Wiltshire, towards the end of Anne & Henry’s marriage. I feel these royal women were takers all right.No different to now, really. Additionally I think you’ll find that it was actually Arthur, Prince of Wales, whose marriage was arranged to Katherine of Aragon (by royal parents Elizabeth Plantagenet & Henry VII) in order to forge an alliance with Katharine’s parents Queen Isabella & King Ferdinand of Spain) Katharine liked Arthur, but after he died, she fell in love with Henry VIII after Arthur, Henry’s older brother, had passed away, soon after their wedding, from an illness. 👑My sources are historians like Alison Weir & David Starkey, and I have read primary sources like Anne Boleyn’s letters. I’m not just quoting from the stories of Hilary Mantel! But of course new research can always come to light, and everyone is free to voice their own opinion. What’s interesting - and important - is that we are continuing to discuss this fascinating time in history ....🦌

It’s actually through the eyes of Thomas Cromwell, not Oliver, though they were distantly related via Thomas Cromwell’s nephew, Richard Williams, who changed his name to Cromwell.

@@tracyhodgkins7516 I actually don’t need telling thanks

catherine howard was as well because she was so young and abused and used by many men

I agree. She was totally aware that no secrets could be kept in a court, she was a lady in waiting many years before marrying Henry. I cant help but think that she would never have took any chance or risk to be unfaithful to him . She was not a stupid woman.

Katherine was the most tragic. After Arthur died she was penniless for years. Then for over 20y she was the perfect Queen, wife. Only to be humiliated, and tossed away. I admire Anne’s intelligence but she was a terrible person. No reason for her to be so cruel and rude to Katherine and Mary. Had she treated them with respect I don’t believe so many would hate her.

I agree, however I also feel bad for Katherine Howard (5th wife), she was just a young girl (teens) who was used by her uncle Thomas Howard (Duke of Norfolk). Also she was used by two other men before she was made to become the next Queen.

​@@cplmpcocptcl6306I agree, Katherine was treated terribly for absolutely no good reason. Anne had no love or respect for the title Katherine held. I don't understand why people praise Anne Boleyn.

And bring an end to the Tudors.

I’ve thought the same thing about Anne and Henry Percy. I always found it interesting that Henry passed away 13 months after Anne’s execution.

Burton played a five foot seven Henry.

Love that film I have it on DVD❤❤

She did NOT keep him hanging for a decade.

@@eugeniasyro5774 You're right, I apologise. It was nearer 8 years. There is evidence he started trying to persuade her into a relationship in 1525 and they married in January 1533. Still not bad really.

What a stupid comment.

Anne was in love with Harry Percy. Henry wouldn’t allow them to wed. Henry wanted Anne and he wouldn’t take no for answer.

@@elizabethmcleod246 Exactly. Anne also feared ending up like her sister, who Henry tapped previously. Anne didn’t want her marriage prospects damaged. However, when you combine Henry’s obsession with Anne, Anne’s father & uncle using her to increase their own social standing and positions, Anne having no rights/ little value as a woman & the biggest one of all - it was treasonous to deny your King in the 1500s - especially Henry. But let’s blame Anne anyway🙄🤦🏼‍♀️

@@temperencebennett5669 It is probably true that it was Anne's own idea to become queen, but as you said Anne saw what happened to her sister's reputation and had a feeling that her father was going to use Anne the same way again. Thus, Anne probably decided that her best prospect was to become queen as there would be a long term benefit of power and influence for the religious and political views she supported.

​@@temperencebennett5669it wasn't "treasonous" to deny the king in the 1500s. Let's not make things up. Any woman could deny to be the king's mistress or concubine....however you could very well lose court incentives for doing so. So basically and generally, people didn't.

Yes. Saying No to Henry 8 was death. It must be remembered that he killed Thomas More, supposedly his best friend, for disagreeing with him over the Aragon divorce. What choice did Anne have? Women were property. That's all. The fact that she held him off for seven years is extraordinary. She was only Queen for 3 years, and was punished for not delivering a live son. What Anne DID deliver was England's greatest Queen. No matter, Henry was done using her, so she was murdered on false charges claimed to be true by her brother George's maniacally jealous wife Jane. She hated Anne for her closeness to George, so she set her up. Long may she rot for her evil tongue and more evil heart.🖤

She has NOTHING to do with the US.

@@trishsiprell6996 Yes! Jane was horrible! Jealousy often gets people killed.

Is she mom of the earth 2?! 😂 Go seek help u shouldnt be walking on the streets

She was the “other woman”, who in time was ousted in favour of another. Typical male behaviour on Henry’s part. Pretty bad luck on Anne’s.

@@GradKat Eh typical tyrannical behavior rather than male behavior, there are far better kings than Henry.

Anne was the other woman so she should have known that; if he cheated on his first wife with Anne, he would cheat on Anne as well, especially since Henry did not get what he wanted

@@elizabethdavis5592 LoL you didn’t understand the assignment

She played her part in destroying queen Katherine, I believe that's why some "hate" on her.

What actions at the end? That she went bravely to the scaffold? She wasn’t alone in that. It hardly made up for all that had gone before.

What did she do that was selfish in her earlier life?

I agree she was a player who lost the game. Why so many feel so bad for her but not Catharine

​@@AmyHoldaway27she had an affair with a married man. Sure they never slept together before they were married, but they kissed and wrote love letters to one another while Catherine of Argon was still his wife and the rightful Queen of England. She and Henry VIII both sent Catherine away and shunned her from court INCLUDING Catherine and Henry VIII daughter Mary. They didn't even let Mary see her mother before her mother died. And when Catherine of Argon died Henry VIII and Ann Bolyen celebrated because as long as Catherine was still alive she was still viewed by most as the true Queen of England even though her and Henry VIII were divorced. Then Ann Bolyen had the audacity to tell Mary she would be allowed back at court so long as Mary recognized her as the Queen of England.

I agree with all sides of this but I feel like us as modern day life will never be Able to understand what they had to do to have a legacy for there family I feel like Anne was a victim of the father and his greed for power and of Henry and his want for a son and lust unfortunately he fell in love with the will power she had and Catherine was a victim of her own body Henry and pretty much the hole Court if you think about it at least she got out alive unfortunately she was a warrior like her mother and that only made her even more of a target and Anne definitely was a abusive to Catherine wether that was because of jealousy or if she was truly just spiteful we will never know and unfortunately he probably didn't love anything of they really once he figured out they couldn't give him a son

I totally agree. I also really happy that Henry’s royal bloodline ended after Elizabeth I . Justice.

I'd say that getting beheaded did not give her the last laugh.

Yes he trumped up those phony charges with Cromwell against Anne. I do believe though that there was a large part of Henry VIII that truly felt Anne had bewitched him. This was during a time when people very much believed in witchcraft. I believe he woke up one day realized Anne would never give him a son and had grown tired of her arguing with him and meddling in state business, realized she had gotten older and felt like he didn’t know what he had ever saw in her.

@@eugeniasyro5774she did, eventually. In the afterlife.

@@eugeniasyro5774oh she did. Henry received, in full, all he did to her.

No she was not a victim at all.

@@sherrythomas5059The king murdered her. How is that not being victimized? Wow. 🤦🏽‍♀️

You mean Anne.

I don't think descendant is the correct term, because it would mean that Anne Boleyn had a direct line, but unfortunately it died out because Elizabeth died without children. However, it is cool if you were to be a descendant of Mary Boleyn who did have descendants.

More correctly you are a distant descendant of the Boleyn family which is a rather wonderful thing I think

Her aunt is my 15th great grandmother (also named Anne Boleyn), which makes Queen Anne my 1st cousin 14 times removed.

She was an adulteress and an usurper. No one to admire.

@@KL-ki8dbLike nit picking much? You know what was meant. 🤨

No, I gave up on Netflix. You never get the true story even in their so called documentaries. Useless.

@@user-fq8rs7rz3iI canceled Netflix months ago!

That was the thinking of the time.

No it wasn't!

@@tollcross4755agreed!! She didn’t even say Wolsey’s name correctly and it was just regurgitated from other documentaries

I was wondering if I was the only one that noticed this. Thank you! 👏🏻

Spoiler alert! 😂

We don’t actually have any dates for Mary’s affair with Henry VIII. We only know that it happened because Henry acknowledged that it had. However, we have no sources which confirm when it began, ended, and subsequently we have no knowledge of how long it lasted.

If I’m able to get a response from Dr. Emmerson of Hever, I’ll have to comment more frequently. 😉

@@icecreamloverlizzie 👑❤️

It must have been around the time she was called home from serving Queen Claude with Anne and attending the Field of cloth of gold, which wasn't mentioned in this production and when he started seeing Anne. Mary had Catherine Carey with Henry, allegedly, and possibly a boy, Henry too. Both whom curried favour with Elizabeth I. I estimated the affair to have been about 6 years from sources and experts I've looked into, Mary lasted longer than other Mistresses have with Henry....Anne's headress in this was bugging me the whole time, it wasn't sat right.

@@elainehague12 We don’t have any records of Mary Boleyn staying in France to serve queen Claude. It is likely that she returned to England with the dowager Queen Mary, and that Anne stayed in France to serve Claude alone. Any guesses at how long Mary’s relationship lasted with Henry are speculation, and aren’t rooted in the historical record, I’m afraid. We also don’t have any evidence that Catherine or Henry Carey were fathered by King Henry VIII. Henry didn’t acknowledge them as his children, as he did with Henry Fitzroy, and neither of Mary’s children claimed to be of Henry’s blood. Elizabeth I was certainly very fond of her cousins by her aunt Mary, but she wasn’t at all keen on any of her relatives who had a claim to the throne - see the Grey sisters and Mary Queen of Scots. This would strongly suggest that Elizabeth didn’t believe them to be half-siblings either.

Yeah, some of those would be good, but Beaufort was a horrible person. No thank you.

@@ditzygypsy I’d argue Margaret of Anjou was far worse, there is a reason she was one of the inspirations for Cersei Lannister in GOT.

hello cousin . I’m Anne Boleyn ,1st 19 x removed

@@sarahfalla2238 hello cuz x

Sure you are.

And a son George.

I want to know who Thomas WolsLEE is? If they can screw that up, Repeatedly, I think we know what level of accuracy is being employed.

By "sworn?" Learn to spell.

Ya, because you've never made a typo or mistake... (Jackass)@@eugeniasyro5774

No contemporary ever called her beautiful. Learn your history.

We have Anne’s medal portrait from 1534, which is an undoubted likeness created during her lifetime, and also Hans Holbein’s sketch of Anne. Moreover, very few of the painted panel portraits labelled as Anne have been scientifically dated, so we cannot rule out the possibility that one dates to her lifetime too.

Or Mary.

I know what you mean about the Tudors. Telling and retelling is very tedious. My favourites are the Plantagenets which Game of thrones was loosely based on. It didn’t do them justice.

✨same✨

✨I am that Boleyn girl ✨

England led the way for socio-economic enslavement. England brought slaves to the Americas as well as exploited India and colonies in Asia, Africa and the Caribbean for centuries. All for the wealth of aristocrats, elites, investors and capitalists. Lots of great history though, better than any soap opera or drama.

Not by a mile.