Anne Boleyn
They called Anne Boleyn the Great Whore. It is a Bible thing. Great Whore is a title from the Book of Revelation, and it is "end of the world" stuff.
An apocalyptic title is overdoing it a bit. They exaggerated the threat Anne posed. Or has history grossly underestimated Anne Boleyn?
Was Anne an existential threat to the Catholic religion and what is known as Abrahamic faith?
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I must thank historians Lucy Worsley, Suzannah Lipscombe and Tracy Borman
for introducing Anne Boleyn to me. I must thank William Shakespeare for humanism. I must thank Elizabeth I for Shakespeare.
Anne Boleyn
The Great Whore Revisited
I was a guest on the Stacey Chillemi podcast recently. I had a great time and it helped me focus on Anne Boleyn even more sharply.
18 year old Anne was known as the king's whore and the king's concubine from 1526 onwards. She was not known as the Great Whore till after her death in 1536.
The Great Whore, well that's another story.