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
Anne Boleyn in the U.S.A.
The popular American conception of Anne as a temptress completely misses the truth revealed by her daughter Elizabeth I. When Elizabeth became Queen, she commissioned a family tree honoring her mother as "the most gracious Princess Lady Anne." This wasn't mere sentiment—when Anne emerged internationally in 1526, it was as Princess Anne Boleyn. My book uses Elizabeth's perspective as a primary source to reconstruct the authentic story of this remarkable woman whose humanist philosophy, had it flourished, could have fundamentally changed America's founding principles and religious character.
Anne Boleyn wasn't merely Henry VIII's second wife but history's greatest humanist—a philosopher who rejected spirit and the religions which come with it. Anne is the greatest because she was able to accommodate Jesus of Nazareth in a humanist scheme. Her concept of Jesus was not true to the Bible. Her Jesus was true to history. We do not know how far she got in her revision of the gospels but according to Elizabeth she completed the task before it was all destroyed, and she was erased.
America came close to an alternative destiny with Anne Boleyn in a place of honour in her consciousness.