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george and anne if as they slay.

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Best Dressed + Anne Boleyn

4th place (11,6% of 241 votes) Claire Foy in Wolf Hall

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OLIVIA COOKE AS QUEEN ALICENT HIGHTOWER

the loneliest moment in someone's life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly

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𝐉𝐀𝐂𝐎𝐁 𝐂𝐎𝐋𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐒-𝐋𝐄𝐕𝐘 as 𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐇𝐄𝐍𝐑𝐘 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐕𝐈𝐈

The White Princess. Season 1, Episode 10.

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René of Anjou

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OPHELIA (2018) dir. Claire McCarthy

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𝐌𝐈𝐂𝐇𝐄𝐋𝐋𝐄 𝐉𝐄𝐍𝐍𝐄𝐑 as 𝐈𝐒𝐀𝐁𝐄𝐋 𝐈 𝐃𝐄 𝐂𝐀𝐒𝐓𝐈𝐋𝐋𝐀 / 𝐐𝐔𝐄𝐄𝐍 𝐈𝐒𝐀𝐁𝐄𝐋𝐋𝐀 𝐈 𝐎𝐅 𝐂𝐀𝐒𝐓𝐈𝐋𝐄

TVE's Isabel. Season 1, Episode 8.

Isabel's blue and white gown with pearls and lace.

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Clarice Lispector, A Breath of Life

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Holliday Grainger as Lucrezia Borgia in The Borgias (2011–2013)

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Best Dressed + Anne Boleyn

5th place (4,6% of 241 votes | tie) Amy James-Kelly in Blood, Sex & Royalty

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I almost pitied him; I almost loved him. I did not hate him—or, if I did, it was only as one loathes the looking-glass, that shows one one's imperfect form in strict and fearful clarity.

—Sarah Waters, Tipping the Velvet

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Meryem Uzerli as HURREM SULTAN [46/?] Muhteşem Yüzyıl (Magnificent Century, 2011)

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Anne appears to have played her part with the expected grace and good humour, knowing of course that her every move and expression was being watched by observers from all over Europe. As with so much relating to Anne Boleyn, it is impossible to be sure which of those eye witnesses, most with a personal agenda, to believe with regard to how she was received. One of the 'Anne Boleyn myths' is that she was hissed at by the London crowns as she rode through the city. There is no contemporary source for this. A city lawyer, Sir John Spelman, reported that all went according to plan.

Anne Boleyn in London, Lissa Chapman

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Her erstwhile chaplain William Latimer later reminisced [...] about a preaching campaign which Anne launched in the last month of her life. She ordered Bishop Hugh Latimer (no relation) to use his first available sermon before the King to implore him not to persist in the 'utter subversion of the said houses and to...convert them to some better use'. Latimer says the Queen then bullied heads of monastic houses who came to her encouraged by this message into providing money for university scholarships, and it is true that in the later 1530s there was a surge in monks taking university degrees. Archbishop Cranmer, out of the loop of court politics down at his Kentish palace of Knole, was alarmed at the confusing messages he was getting, and wrote to Cromwell seeking face-to-face clarifying word as 'the cause of religion [monasticism]...goeth all contrary to mine expectation, if it be as the fame goeth'. Anne was bidding to wrest leadership of reformation from its other chief champions, especially Cromwell.

Surrenders and the Scaffold: 1536, Diarmaid MacCulloch

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Historians have shown how Anne voiced her opposition to Cromwell’s plans for the resources grabbed for the king by the dissolution of the smaller monasteries. After agreeing to let her preacher condemn Cromwell from the pulpit of the Chapel Royal in March 1536, Anne seemed to broadcast her intention to intervene in affairs of state and to press her own policy agenda onto the king’s ideas. Despite Anne being Cromwell’s former ally, especially in the area of religious reform, a struggle to influence the king’s thinking put these powerful personalities on a collision course. It seems likely that Cromwell decided to undermine the king’s confidence in Anne primarily to clear the way for his own power to remain unchallenged, and also to ensure that he could outmanoeuvre and dominate whatever factions formed around the king after her removal. The end to Anne’s influence had to be definitive and permanent if it was also to sweep away her friends in high places and weaken her family and Howard in-laws.

How to kill a queen?, by Dr. Sean Cunningham

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The new queen's white falcon was on prominent display throughout the pageant, resting on a bed of Tudor roses. Although it is now synonymous with Anne and the Boleyns in general, Henry had only granted it to her on her elevation to the marquessate of Pembroke. It was a fitting choice because the same bird had long been an emblem of Anne's Irish ancestors, the Butlers, earls of Ormond. It also had strong royal associations and had been used as an emblem by the celebrated warrior king Edward III, as well as by Henry's maternal grandfather, Edward IV, with whom he strongly identified.

Anne Boleyn & Elizabeth I (2023), Tracy Borman