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It’s not exactly tales from Boccaccio.

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All around me are familiar faces Worn out places, worn out faces

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It would be wise for you not to be fooled by your own masquerade.

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official promotional photography for the tudors - 39/?

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Natalie Portman as Anne Boleyn in The Other Boleyn Girl - 2008

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I loved her speech at her trial, in which she describes her one “crime” as not having shown Henry enough humility—I think that’s an extraordinary, “feminist” insight for a woman of her time. I loved her dark, ironic sense of humor, which never left her, even at the end. I loved the fact that she never tried to aspire to the beauty-standards of her day, but wore her own style with supreme confidence, probably altering ideas about beauty in the process. I loved her passion for education, and for making the bible available in English to all subjects. I loved her courage, stepping right into the epicenter of politics during a volatile, dangerous time. I loved the fact that she expressed her jealousy rather than suppressing it as a “good” wife should. I loved the way Elizabeth is so clearly her daughter, with that distinctive blend of brains, femininity, assertiveness, and flirtatiousness that they both apparently had.

Author of the “The Creation of Anne Boleyn” (x)

nothing has summed up my obsession with this woman as accurately as this.

(via marissaboleyn)

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anne boleyn + alphabet – for @lucreziaborgia and @anneboleyns

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I’m Henry VIII, I had six sorry wives. Some might say I ruined their lives…

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I’ve been waiting for so long! For what?

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No English Queen has made more impact on the history of the nation than Anne Boleyn, and few have been so persistently maligned.

Joanna Denny (from Anne Boleyn: A New Life of England’s Tragic Queen)

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Is there anyone I love more than Anne Boleyn? I think not.

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The world comes crushing down and I cannot stop it

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Anne Boleyn is executed at the Tower of London — 05.19.36. | Elizabeth Tudor is released from the Tower of London — 05.19.54.

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that thought they could bury me  (19th May 1536)

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“Your gracious majesty, it causes me such pain and grief to return the gifts you gave me. Alas, they are too beautiful and I unworthy to receive them. I think I never gave your Majesty cause to give them to me, since I am nothing and you are everything.”