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 Stolen Years of Henry VIII & Anne Boleyn
This podcast is about the battle for the soul of England. Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn transformed England from a Catholic country to a Protestant one. Their relationship spanned fourteen years. For ten years they were inseparable.
Following her execution on May 19, 1536, Anne was ex-communicated by the Church of England. People were no longer free to talk about Anne but not talking about Anne meant not talking about Henry because they had been as one. The historical gaps in Henry VIII's story aren't accidents but calculated omissions designed to control the narrative. Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn and the narrative fell into the hands of Thomas Cromwell and the English aristocracy. 28 lords and noblemen of England to be precise.
It was not just Anne erased from history. With 14 years of Anne Boleyn’s life there was included 14 years of Henry VIII’s life which was deliberately expunged from historical records.