“I am carrying that King’s Son! We are on the edge of a Golden World!” Their daughter Elizabeth turned out to be the most successful ruler of the Tudors.
anne said "we are at the edge of a golden world" and she wore gold!! so prophetic... she didn't live to see it, but she created it through elizabeth whose rule was named "the golden age" indeed
Anne thought her love for Henry would change the country and make things better for everyone but she was wrong. Henry was an asshole of a man and one of the worst kings England ever had. No, her greatest achievement was already a work in progress, very much alive and safely hidden (no one thought she'd become queen). Worst decision he ever made in his life was to cut her head off. He became the worst king ever and his daughter, who he didn't like to see because she reminded him of Anne, became the best. Karma's fair, I'll give it that
nisiriti Actually the point of her wearing yellow was to mock Katherine of Aragon. Yellow was the color of mourning in Spain. This actually happened in real life, after Katherine died Anne through a party and wore yellow to celebrate.
If she have had a Boy her life would have been happier and longer, but England probably would have never achieve the glory that Elizabeth brought it...wow
karina ashmon, actually it's suspected that Anne had a condition where all pregnancies after the first one would miscarry due to a lack of oxygen. So it's not necessarily the stress that Anne was put through that caused her to lose all her other babies.
Hr yes its is believed that eather her or Henry or both had the hr factor. Which made it not possible to have any more viable children. Most think it was Henry since Catherine had the same issue with caring more kids after Mary.
Yazzy KMA not only that but her downfall was Elizabeth being for everything fell apart for Anne when Elizabeth was born if Elizabeth was born after Anne gave birth to a boy she would have had a better chance possibly
@@nathanielgaryantes9742 not true. Henry forced his affection unto her. Henry broke off her secret engagement with a young lord and tricked her into getting engaged to him. Her parents were against the relationship and Anne too at first. Henry pursued her relentlessly so she caved in.
According to my best friend (he's finishing History career) hey had no idea about how bereavement worked on Spain, so they thought gold was the color for that. They weren't celebrating Catherine's death (not openly at least) but wearing what they thought it was Spanish colors for her funeral All that said, Henry and Anne wearing gold probably was seen as a terrible insult to whoever knew a bit about mourning in Spain
@@marzzarella2770 No it didn't. There is only one person who said Henry and Anne celebrated CoA's death. Another thing to look at is, Henry asked Chapuys if his people needed black clothes.
@@aleasyah3032 But that's the thing, yellow wasn't really a mourning color in Spain. So if what you describe is the case, then Henry and Anne wore yellow hoping that Spain would believe they were English trying to show respect (wrongly) even though they were happy. Anne and Hemry were playing a mental game there if that was the case XD
The part at 1:15-1:30 is so hauntingly beautiful, Anne at what she believes is the peak of her life, happy, beautiful and relieved, not knowing the end is right around the corner (literally, with a boy with a sword chasing another boy running past her)
What? No, she didn't. In this scene, Anne says "Katherine is dead (0:42)", which places this scene somewhere after January 1536. Anne gave birth to Elizabeth in 1533. Anne Boleyn dies May 19, 1536. So in this scene, yes, Anne has roughly 4 months left to live. Queen Anne did not live till Elizabeth was "4 or 5".
Theres something so ironic and symbolic about anne saying "We are on the *edge* of a golden world" because yes they were, but they only stood on the _edge_ and she never actually got to be in that "golden world". But of course as we know, that golden world did become a reality, just not in the way Anne or Henry expected...
Good on her for standing up to her father and admitting he couldn’t take all the credit for what she did👍🏻 It was very brave of her to take credit for her own achievements plus it was so good seeing her stand up to him
About the fact that she and Henry wore gold when Catherine died... Actually they had no idea about how bereavement worked on Spain, so they thought gold was the color for that. They weren't celebrating Catherine's death (not openly at least) but wearing what they thought it was Spanish colors for her funeral
I think Henry knew but she did not. Henry would have been taught a few things by Catherine, so he would have known. He just wanted to make Elizabeth happy and mourn for Catherine privately, yet publically.
I never understood the confidence in which she said that she carried a son. She's so cocky, that it kind of goes beyond wishful thinking, it seems. . .
Oh Anne ! You carried so much better than "the King's son" and you will never know what kind of miracle for England's realm grown inside your bully...Here's the Tragedie, the Life's vagaries... But she was right however, England was on the dawn of a Golden Age thanks to her daughter Elisabeth, the virgin Queen 👸🏼 ! An area which lasted 40 years !
That was a nice detail. Although usually kids were named after the grandparents, and Anne's mom was also an Elizabeth, so the little girl had the name granted XD Edited: Actually if she wasn't named Elizabeth, maybe she would have been called Margaret, like Henry's grandma. She was very close with him, apparently
That part in history is true after Queen Catherine's death. During the funeral, everyone was wearing black, but Anne Boleyn was wearing yellow because in Spain they wore yellow at funerals. They don't know why she would wear such Spanish colors because Catherine was the rival of Anne over Henry. People would say, "Maybe it was a sign of respect that she did have for she was once her mistress as lady-in-waiting." Others suggested that she came forth dress like that to humiliate the queen for she make a scheming announcement to wound her dead rival's pride. But during that funeral, she asks for a chair to sit on and pray instead of kneeling before the deceased queen. She replies with her reason, "I cannot kneel for being a woman of my condition doesn't allow me to do so." Henry thought about what she said and happily kneel by her side and questioned her, "Is it true?" Anne smiled and happily announced the final nail to the coffin of Catherine of Aragon's memories. "I am carrying the future king of England." That was what she announced getting the attention on herself once Catherine was finally dead.
When you find comfort in another persons grief , sorrow, and misfortune….it comes back at you 100 times full! Right back at your doorstep. Also remember, if they can do it with you, they can also do it to you!
Yep. She acted like a straight FOOL here. That's why I couldn't pity her when Jane came around. I was all, "You really thought you were THAT much different..."
@@cfinley81 I know I’m late but I felt the same way. Catherine was refused the right to see her daughter and Anne in the show is smiling about her dying and her being pregnant and then loses her baby which I feel bad for saying she kinda deserved. she sees Henry with Jane and was like “how could you I am your wife” acting like she didn’t do the same thing to Catherine of Aragon.
@@unoriginal.8182 exactly. I’m glad Anne was executed and I’m glad her baby boy died. By the way did you know the Roman Catholic Church requires one to take an oath to Katharine of Aragon to join it?
I feel like Anne and Henry we're made for each other. Narcissistic, power hungry, rash. They loved fiercely, they died horribly. If anyone was his soul mate, no matter what was said, I believe it was Anne 100%. Both were insane.
Anne did not pursue Henry, he pursued her. She did not want to be with Henry at first because she had other suitors willing to marry her at that time, and she also saw the way in which he treated her sister at court and she did not want to end up the Kings mistress/side piece
Of all the wives Anne was the less undeserving of a better fate. Poor Katherine Howard has been unjustly sexualized and was beheaded for not being a virgin when she married Henry in a case that screamed pedophilia. There is no actual proof that she lay with Culpepper beyond a letter which never alluded to carnality, only a deep fondness. Katherine of Aragon fought a war for Henry, served as regent, was his loyal ambassador (1st female ambassador in Europe btw) and served him faithfully to her death but died in poverty still calling out for her child and the husband who discarded her, her food coming from peasants near the area since she didn't even have money for basics anymore. Try pitying those two more.
@@alondraperez-ramirez8363 I know they suffered.....I hate Henry for everything that he had done to his wives, and this includes Katherine of Aragon and Katherine Howard.....but, in this video, It is showing us Anne's happiness and Henry destroyed it with his ego....but I felt much about Katherine of Aragon....and I started to hate much more Henry after Katherine Howard's death
@@myllenekretliwandermaasmyl2660 but here Anne is happy in a cruel way, mocking the true Queen. Henry destroyed that 'joy' yes but if Anne were the wise but empowered woman so many take her for then she would have respect for KOA after her death as her predecessor did for Wolsey when he passed. Lady Boleyn was forever mocking her enemies, she made a play mocking Wolsey and wore red when More died. She made princess Mary who had more royal blood than Henry himself serve Elizabeth, the great granddaughter of merchants and gave permission to 'strike the wicked bastard e'ertime she dares calleth herself a Princess'. Anne expected her resolve to crumble under humiliation and was furious when this instead strengthened Mary's faith in KOA being the true Queen. Anne is interesting but in the end she helped carve out her demise just as much as Henry and Cromwell by being so cruel to her rivals and driving friends like her sister away.
@@alondraperez-ramirez8363 she wasnt killed for "not being a virgin" she was killed because she cheated on the king. I hate henry viii but she was asking for it
Tino Gudelj like he wasn’t cheating on her and all his wives before her? she wasn’t asking for anything even if she did cheat on him, honestly he deserved to be cheated on and much worse
“We are on the edge of a golden world” it feels like it was trying to imply that Elizabeth would create a golden age and that what they called her reign so yeah she was kinda right
and God gave Anne her dosis of karma by not giving her a son, which eventually led Henry to fall out of love of her and have her executed, the only one that was truly innocent and deserved nothing of what she got was Catherine, both Anne and Jane did bad things and they both were pawns of their power hungry families, the only difference is that for some reason people tend to be more biased towards Anne
xWickedWitchOfTheWestx From what everybody knows Anne never plotted against Catherine, let alone to kill her. Anne neither did want to marry Henry, she was in love and secretly engaged with Henry Percy. She would have been countess if only both her father, his, and Wolsey, probably by Henry orders, hadn’t separated the two. It was Henry who pursued her and sent her a dead buck...with a letter in which he remembered her that she better not escape (when she retired from court to her home Hever Castle to try to be forgotten by the king), since he was the hunter and she was the prey!!!! Henry got tired of Catherine, especially because she didn’t give him the só wanted male hair, way before he met Anne. He was already commanding Wolsey to go see Renee of France, Queen Claude’s sister and Frances I’s sister in law. Anne was a child when he started to think about the divorce. And it was Henry’s own fault if he couldn’t have a male child. At least not a healthy one. Since it’s the man sperm which determines the sex. Historians had said that he had a genetic problem which made all his children born weak of health. Especially the male ones who died in puberty. At the end Anne had the last laugh. Only her daughter survive long enough till old age and made England the potency which it is still today, the so called Golden Age. Not by chance, the Elizabethan period and theater have her name. Most of Catherine humiliations happened because Henry wanted that. I don’t deny Anne’s jealousy but I still understand her when I imagine myself in such a delicate position. If Henry himself hadn’t wanted to, Anne would never said nothing against her. Proof of that is that he still kept on mistreating Mary after her death just because she didn’t want to sign the oath which declared her fathers marriage null and void. You just needed to not obey the narcissistic spoiled tyrant king to be tortured or put to death. Even if you were his daughter. So go to do some research instead of insulting someone who cannot defend herself anymore.
Annais Maia you speak of Anne as if she was your relative or something, "go to do some research instead of insulting someone who cannot defend herself anymore", yeah a lot of people of that time are dead and cannot speak for themselves, like Catherine, Jane, Mary, Henry himself, that was pointless to say and when did I insulted her?, did I called her whore?, a witch? or any of the other things people those days called her?, I merely stated the truth that no one wants to accept, Jane was no saint but neither was Anne, if we are going to go for who plotted what Jane didn't plot anything either, her family did because they wanted to earn prestige and power and money, just the Anne's family, who first tried to use Anne sister and when that failed used Anne, Jane was a pawn of her power hungry family that saw an oportunity to make her a queen when Anne failed to produce a son and Henry started to grow bored of her, just like it happened with Catherine, Jane played her part on the plot, just like Anne once played her plot of the plot that eventually made her a queen and just like Jane, Anne was a lady-in-waiting for the current Queen, I do not think Jane was a saint but neither was Anne, in the end most of the fault lies on Henry
xWickedWitchOfTheWestx The difference is that Anne doesn’t have blood in her hands unlike Jane have, the same Jane who did a lot for Mary and almost nothing for Elizabeth, calling her “that Smeaton bastard” and being trained by Anne’s own cousin Nicholas Carew to gain Henry’s love and get her killed. Anne was not saint but much better than the other. At least she showed herself as she really was, not using masks. “A lot of that time are dead and cannot speak for themselves” Oh really? If it wasn’t for you I wouldn’t never know it genius.... You insulted her when you said it was karma. If it was like that her daughter would never be queen, let alone have the longest and prosper reign, surpassing all others.
I sometimes wonder that even if she had managed to produce a male heir (or many males heirs), would Henry have kept her as his wife and not found some other way to get rid of her in time?
I for sure think he would have. I always felt that way about Catherine too...had she been able to produce a healthy male heir he would have stayed with her.
Beheaded is not good carma that human can have, besides that,r each human has different destine, I dont think dead people is fulfilled by the life of their children. She was dead, dead people dont exist, is gone forever. Human have only one life, when it finish, the glory in earth is done.
No there was no Karma. Elizabeth always refer to herself as Henry's daughter and plus he put her back in the line of succession. And thanks to his money his tutors and his power of position Elizabeth got to be Queen. If she remained illegitimate she would have been like any other illegitimate children that Henry had which is not on the throne and not defeating the Spanish Armada so that was all thanks to him.
At this scene I really scene Anne Boleyn like antagonist, even if I know she was a oerson with her feelings and needs. Im curious if this is just my guess, of if creators show really wanted to portray her in such a negative way.
Does anyone know the song that is playing in the background of this scene or the song that Anne is spinning to. I looked on Spotify on the soundtrack and I can’t find it
I know that Anne wore yellow when Catherine died but at the same time yellow is the Spanish mourning colour, and Catherine was Spanish. Was it the Spanish mourning colour back then? Was Anne happy or sorrowful when Catherine died? Because I keep hearing different things from all sides
@@Crea1379 I think it was the believed mourning color, but Henry didn't knew a lot about those traditions in Spain, still he chose to wear it. If it was the real mourning color... I'm not quite sure, because Catherine's great grandmother (also Catherine) was Queen of Castile and when her husband died she wore black
(Anne didn’t actually wear yellow, the series made that up, it was just Henry who did it as celebration and because he was just a cunt in general) but she probably a mix of both emotions.
