u/thecoolcato

19th may is the day Anne Boleyn was beheaded , forever whatever she did and whatever she did not , she paid the price with her head. It upsets me very much knowing how heavy the morning of 19th may must have been , waking up another time only to never wake up again and the shock of it all was she likely paid the price for something she did not even commit.

i am aware many people do not like her for what she talked about other wives and lots of things one must understand the place she came from that she was prompted to do this. this doesn't mean i am trying to dilute the plight of other wives but a bit of my thinking on anne.

anne had been courted/lusted for seven years by the king , she was written letters , and those letters swore of so much passion and loyalty you would think henry was embodying romeo and juliet. all of this probably concreted in her mind that he is very much in love with her , and if i reckon , she did reject her advances before? she was the reason henry made religious reforms just to annul the marriage and get together with her , it was only natural of anne to be completely charmed by him.

and perhaps this is the reason she could not accept when henry did the same thing with jane , she could not accept that she was going to be another side kick , having the same fate as Catherine. so whatever happened next , her being falsely accused , imprisoned , must have been a huge blow to her beliefs about him.

poor girl really thought that if henry cheated with her , he would not be cheating on her. alas!

wish anne had reddit in her times though , AITA sub would have been a god sent!

it really makes me upset knowing what her last days until the morning of beheading must have been , the denial , the shock , the anger , the nervousness , her daughter's fate all of this must have been shock waves. did she regret ? did she feel guilty for what she did to catherine? so many questions .

until the very end she believed that on the grounds of relentless years in past henry would change his mind , maybe she will be sent to nunnery , away from the palace but atleast alive , this denial comes only from false deception tbh.

-edited something i wrote under false understanding which people in comments corrected.

all of the six women were right in their places and morally grey from observer's place. six different women who thought bit too brazenly confident. all of them were deceived by that man , and for me the only guilty is henry who only wanted a boy making machine and nothing else.

that being said , i hope anne has found her peace by now , i often wonder if she could see now how things turned out but then i wouldnt want these women to be bothered by all of this in afterlife or whatever if exists.

thank you. ( my apologies if this post didnt fit with your opinions , they are not meant to impose on anyone)

18th may... last day she would have talked , ate food , drank water , thought about anything . this leans to an extreme emotional side but i cant help but think about these things. how it would have felt , spending last day of existence? she must have prayed tremendously for her daughter elizabeth , must have had a sliver of hope that the king might change his mind , confused , scared about the day after. it truly is traumatic . i wonder if she felt very infuriated about wrong accusations? wondering where did it go wrong??

imagining her last moment gives me chill , what it would have felt for her ladies in waiting ? ( i hope thats the right name) seeing her kneeling down on scaffold and within 3 seconds , her head is seperated from her body , rolling down on earth , deprived of 'life'and a stream of crimson red blood ensuing behind. fucking nightmares.

i knew about AB a year before but didnt mind much , this month again some shorts of it came on my feed regarding the show , i havent watched it but have completely deep dived into tudor lore , every piece of information on AB that i can find.

i dont know if its gets a bit crazy but its around 7 in evening at my place and i cant help but draw parallels of each hour that passed for her and her emotions , guess im too deep in the spiral .

the world remembers you anne boleyn even after so many decades.

pardon my grammar , im kind of overwhelmed.