#tudor sex

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↳ anne boleyn + her necklace

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May 19, 1536 - Anne Boleyn is Beheaded

"Good Christian people, I have come here to die. For according to the law, and by the law, I am judged to die and therefore, I will speak nothing against it. I am come hither to accuse no man, nor to speak of that whereof I am accused and condemned to die. But I pray God save the King and send him long to reign over you, for a gentler nor a more merciful prince was there never. And to me he was ever a good, a gentle, and sovereign lord. And if any person will meddle of my cause, I require them to judge the best. And thus I take my leave of the world and of you all, and I heartily desire you all to pray for me. O Lord, have mercy on me. To God, I commend my soul.' And then she knelt down, saying, 'To Christ I commend my soul, Jesu receive my soul', divers times, till that her head was stricken off with the sword.” - Anne's execution, as reported in Hall's Chronicle (1548)

""On a scaffold made there for the said execution, the said Queen Anne said thus: 'Masters, I here humbly submit me to the law, as the law hath judged me. And as for mine offenses, I here accuse no man; God knoweth them. I remit them to God, beseeching him to have mercy on my soul. And I beseech Jesu, save my sovereign and master, the King - the most godly, noble, and gentle prince that is, and long to reign over you.' Which words were spoken with a goodly smiling countenance. And this done, she knelt down on her knees and said: "To Jesu Christ, I commend my soul'. And suddenly, the hangman smote off her head at a stroke with a sword." - Anne's execution, as reported in Wriothesley's Chronicle (1559)

"And so she went to the place of her ordeal

To obey the will of justice,

Still showing a serene countenance,

As if she did not grieve for this world in any way;

For her coloring and face were such

That never before did she seem so beautiful ...

There was no one who does not have firm hope

That her spirit will not be in agony,

Given her great faith and wise patience,

Which rose above womanly courage.

Everyone, on the basis of her mightily steady end,

Judges her life to have been prudent

And believes they have committed a great offense

In having thought so ill of her." - Lancelot de Carle's The Story of the Fall of Anne Boleyn (1536, trans. Joann Dellaneva)

"Anne, the late Queen, suffered with sword this day within the Tower upon a new scaffold and died boldly. Jesu take them [i.e. Anne and the five men] to His mercy if it be His will." - John Husee to Lord Lisle, May 19, 1536

[elephantlovemedleys]

currently watching sex & the city and i'm sorry this had me wheezing

[bforbetterthanyou]

“…eyes always most attractive Which she knew well how to use with effect, Sometimes leaving them at rest, And at others, sending a message To carry the secret witness of the heart. And truth to tell, such was their power That many surrendered to their obedience.” -Lancelot de Carles

“Those eyes of yours are like dark hooks for the soul.” -Thomas Boleyn, The Tudors season 1, episode 2

[isabelleneville]

𓅃 ANNE BOLEYN APPRECIATION WEEK 𓅃

Day Six — Favourite Romantic Dynamic: Anne Boleyn and Henry VIII, King of England What could attract Henry to Anne? Was it her beauty? From the contemporary accounts we know, that Anne Boleyn was not considered as beautiful for her time, but still she had ‘something’ that drew attention. Was it beauty from the inside? Maybe her sharp intelligence and political acumen? Surely Anne was not afraid to speak out her opinions about many things, and this makes her different than other women who simply listened to what men had to say. Anne Boleyn was a woman before her time – she dared to reach for something that other women would only dream about. Henry VIII knew that Anne was an extraordinary woman and that she was a perfect match for him because they were similar in many ways. — Sylwia Sobczak Zupanec

[glorianas]

Amy James Kelly as Anne Boleyn in Blood, Sex and Royalty (2022)

[plantagenetsun]

𝓟eople well know and remember 𝓐nne 𝓑oleyn was my mother. Why can I not? Is that wrong, to love my mother? ✯

[historicalreusedcostumes]

This Dark Blue dress is worn on Sophie Boettge as Jane Boleyn in Blood, Sex and Royalty in 2022 and worn later two times in The Serpent Queen on two exstra's in 2022.

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Max Parker

In the Source Link, you will find a complete gif pack of Max Parker in Blood, Sex and Royalty. Max plays the role of King Henry Tudor, the eighth.

King Henry VIII is most famous in English history for having six wives - Catherine of Aragon (just under 24 years), Anne Boleyn (just under 3 years), Jane Seymour (just over a year, as Jane passed away), Anne of Cleves (6 months), Catherine Howard (18 months) and Catherine Parr (3 years, 6 months - ended with Henry’s death). He was also father to Mary Tudor (Mary I, Bloody Mary), Elizabeth Tudor (Elizabeth I, the Virgin Queen) and Edward Tudor (Edward VI).

Source - FabledEnigma

[rmelster]

The Tudors and their Catherine Howard: When Bluebeard became Lolita.

For @purplefictionlover

— INTRODUCTION: A TAKE WITH NO HONOUR.

Her name that cannot be pronounced without grief.

Katherine Howard, at such a tender age as to be considered by many as a child bride to this day, would go down in history as the unfortunate fifth bride of the most infamous sovereign the English of the 16th century could have dreaded of having. By the moment Henry VIII took possession of his penultimate queen, he had already divorced his first and his fourth wives, dragged his second to her unjust execution, and see the third die following the blood-curling birth of Henry’s only surviving son. The terrible bridegroom was on the brink of fifty tears of age, and any remaining of his former beauty had long fled his body; the fair bride would seventeen years of age, if not younger. Not much longer than a year later, the unhappy queen Catherine was accused of being unfaithful to the king with a man named Culpepper and promptly sentenced to death. She was nineteen, if not younger. The classic tale of Bluebeard and one of the six wives who were given no name in their story and, furthermore, no justice; a tale that cannot be read without a shiver and an unshed tear for those anonymous women that live and die by the hand of their husbands and are buried and forgotten. A tale, as old as time, that makes us remember the dangers hidden behind gallant men with too many secrets.

But instead of potentiating the hidden horrors of an unequal marriage, The Tudors (2007 - 2010) reject turning the woeful marriage of Henry Tudor and Catherine Howard into a cautionary tale with a grim ending, just to write an traditionally misinterpreted Lolita, with a seemingly sexually aware teenage girl entering into a torrid relationship with a man much older than her, and doomed by the narrative to follow her predecessor’s darksome fate.

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[annabolinas]

May 16, 1536 - Archbishop Cranmer Visits Anne in the Tower

"This day at dinner, the Queen said that she should go to a nunnery and is in hope of life." - William Kingston to Thomas Cromwell, May 16, 1536

"Only Anne herself, therefore, could set Henry free. What she said to Cranmer we will never know. But it was enough for the Archbishop of Canterbury to pronounce her marriage dissolved the next day. And later on the 16th, it may be by coincidence, it may not, it was determined that Anne should die, not by the agony of the fire, ut at the hands of the executioner of Calais." - David Starkey, Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII (2001)

"Did the archbishop hint at life in return for compliance? Did Anne confess to a consummated relationship with Percy or a third party, a quid pro quo, perhaps, for Henry not rejecting Elizabeth? There is no way of knowing what passed between the client, now archbishop, and his patron, now a condemned traitor. In all probability the meeting was what it purported to be, pastoral." - Eric Ives, The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn (2004)

"It's been suggested that [Cranmer] visited to try to convince her to 'confess to an impediment to her marriage'. This seems very probable given that that day at dinner, Anne told Kingston that she would go to a nunnery and that she was 'in hope of life'. Perhaps Cranmer offered Anne a deal: agree to an annulment and your life will be spared." - Natalie Grueninger, The Final Year of Anne Boleyn (2022)

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I should’ve never been allowed unsupervised on the internet

[bforbetterthanyou]

battle of the annes (jodies/natalies/claires/amys)

[glorianas]

Amy James-Kelly as Anne Boleyn in Blood, Sex and Royalty (2022)