Anne Boleyn's apartments - HM Tower of London
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- A short video on the now lost apartments that Anne Boleyn stayed within prior to her Coronation in 1533, and prior to her Execution in 1536. It has long been published that Anne stayed in the 'Queen's House' opposite Tower Green; however this video will show she would have stayed in reality. Anne was tried in the Great hall, and the stands erected especially for the trial, to hold the 2000 spectators, could still be seen in 1778. Hope you enjoy!
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Sarah. THANK YOU so very much for sharing this link with us. Anne’s lodgings … brought back to life! Brilliant!
Fascinating. It would be great if the Tower had a permanent exhibition of 3D models of what it looked liked thru the centuries, and a guide so palatable one walked around you can imagine the buildings.
I was thinking that same thing..
...Maybe to make a 3-D actual printing image of these structures...especially for those of us who are more visual learners!
@TheEsthergirl Anne was hated due to the public loving Catherine, she was also blamed for what Henry did to Catherine and Mary. She was innocent of the charges brought against her, and brought the greatest monarch England has ever had, into the world. The public loved her after her execution, because they felt sorry for her and her situation.
I agree. Its inerving that history chastises Anne for breaking up Henry and Cathetine’s marriage.. But no one had a problem with Jane Seymour, breaking up Henry and Anne’s marriage. He wS a married man, in the beginning for BOTH women!!
Fascinating! But the lady working on the project resembles Anne more than the one playing her in this video, in my opinion (maybe because to me Anne will always be Genevieve Bujold, and this lady resembles her quite a bit :-) ). Was brought to this video by a wonderful book called "In The Footsteps of Anne Boleyn," highly recommend for all Anne fans out there. Boy, if Henry had only known that Anne would be a ceaseless object of fascination long after all his other wives, including his beloved Jane, were long forgotten, and that the daughter he was so disgusted to have, would be the greatest monarch England would ever know, he never would have divorced, let alone beheaded, her. Poor wee lass.
+S Kandy
What's your problem ? How rude.
+Ann R. thank you! I wasn't going to deign to reply to this very strange person who obviously has some problems, but thank you for doing it for me :-).
+sandraoopie
LOL,you're welcome. I saw what happened and thought, what the ....?!
:)
+sandraoopie
I too,have found it very poignant , the rise of Elizabeth and her long,successful reign, alongside the sad fate of her mother. And yes, how no one might have ever guessed at the time, about what would happen with either of them. The ring Elizabeth wore with her mother's portrait in it, amazing to see photos of that, what an object ! Incredible.
@@sandraoopieAt this late date I've missed the deleted comment referred to, but I for one very much agree w/you Sandra re. the actress playing Anne.
Ungallant as some may think it to say, there's something *soul deadening* about the casting of Anne in this clip. (The same actress is featured in a longer production as well, probably the source of the current excerpts.)
I realize Anne was said to not be conventionally beautiful by the "pale and fair" standards of the day...but is this superficial resemblance to some of Anne's posthumous portraits supposed to conjure, even a little, the charm of the ultra‐charismatic femme fatale for whom Henry upended England, risked the dangerous wrath of the Habsburgs, and even defied Excommunication, scorning Hell itself?
Nope. Don't think so.
I love it when you can breathe life into history.
(addendum) At least she got her revenge and definitely gets the last laugh, seeing what became of her daughter that she was so frantically worried about at the end of her life. If they ever met in the afterlife, if there is such a thing, I'm sure Henry would have been prostrate before her, begging forgiveness. I like to imagine that.
I agree!-well said.
zx10bez Thank you!
+S Kandy ho ho ho merry christmas! I'm glad you are privy to the secrets of their hearts and minds. Good on you! Of course to me it appears he was acting in the best interest of his dick, but everyone is entitled to their opinion, n'est-ce-pas?
+S Kandy
Henry didn't see much of Elizabeth either ! Anne did send for Elizabeth when things started turning dark. She did want to see her daughter, especially when she realized things were going bad. The reason why Elizabeth was kept away {from both parents} was not because Anne didn't care, it was for Elizabeth's health. The country was safer than in the city. The child was kept away from diseases,
+sandraoopie
It was horrible what Henry did to the men who died with Anne, too. I believe he killed Anne and accepted false charges on her because he'd have been embarrassed to admit that the hard,protracted struggle to make Anne Queen was all for nothing in the end {in his mind}. The hard-won marriage ended with no son. If he'd given Anne a divorce, he may have looked a bit foolish for all he went through to marry her. Henry turned the world upside down for Anne in the beginning. And it was quicker to create false charges and just kill her. He was a sociopath. He'd rather see himself as a "victim" than have people laugh about the end of a marriage he'd moved Heaven and Earth to have.
It's because we live in a different time. Morality and world views have changed, that is why people love her today.
People love her today because its known that the charges against her were faked; she's viewed as a victim. In reality, she was the other woman. Many woman today hate "her" - any woman whose significant other leaves them for another woman. Princess Diana was the Catherine of Arogan of modern times; Camilla is today's Anne. Boleyn.
Di R
I couldn’t have said this any better.
You took the words right out of my mouth.
This is really nice, thank you for the great enjoyment.
I must go back to the Tower again soon.
Her apartments we're NOT in the tower. When she became Queen, Henry had a new and separate set of lodgings raised for her. They were demolished in the 18th century. Even at the end of her life, that is where she stayed. They were next to the tower.
She stayed in the Tower of London. Which is entire castle, even areas which are not White Tower(castle's keep or grand tower in this case) or any other of castle's Towers.
They never said she stayed in a tower. But lodged in Tower's royal apartments.
Or in other words-in royal apartments of Tower of London(castle), meaning inside of castle. Not next to the castle. Those apartments were next to White Tower.
You have the layout there in video and still you complain that they've got it wrong?...
I feel so sorry for this poor woman her only crime was being ambitious and wanting to be more than king Henry 8th mistress and that got her alot of people who did not like her and plotted her downfall.
Stefan Gingrich she was an adulterer , Jesus tells us marriage is until desth and she wss the cause of his divorce
Sheri For king henry was the cause. You think there wouldn’t have been other women without anne?
She was not the cause of his divorce. Henry was planning to have his marriage to Katherine annulled before he ever set eyes on Anne and he had Wolsey scouting for a French princess for him. He wanted a son at any cost and Katherine was in menopause by this time. Henry himself was an adulterer many times over. He was unfaithful to Anne and to Jane Seymour as well.
Zij was en grote Madam maar heeft tegenwind gehad en vrouw die en man zo passionneel bemind kan niet anders dan bewonderd worden
Unfortunately, she was not the only person who suffered and died for her ambitions and Henry's desires. She brought a number of people down during her rise to the top, not even counting those brought down by Henry for her. And those who fell with her later, of course. And all those in between.
Thank you for sharing :)
@Jess140594
I totally agree. Looking at all the paintings of her, especially the miniature portrait said to be the real true one, the woman fits the profile.
I agree, this woman looks quite a bit like portraits of Anne that Holbein the Elder painted.
I wonder why I am so fascinated by her story and Henry VIII ? I am German, French and Irish-so I'm not related. So...what is it ?
+Yvonne de Carlo I'm sure millions of people around the world through the centuries have asked themselves that.
Yvonne Marten Ebstein I feel the same way! For me, I admire her for refusing to be used as a mistress and that she did love him (I believe it was the man she wanted, the crown was just icing on the cake). I also am drawn to their relationship because he loved her enough to break tradition and stand against the the perversion of the church. I also admire her avant-garde attitude to lead the way into Protestantism so any and everyone could read the Bible and think for themselves instead of blindly following a corrupt church. It also helps that my fiancé is a descendant of Henry Percy, Ann's first love; had she married him instead I wouldn't have my fiancé considering everything would be very different now....
Because it started out as a true love story and ended with the first queen ever to be executed.
I'm Armenian American, and her story is so interesting to me too! She intrigues us because she was a modern woman born in the wrong era
Juanita Richards
so accurate and sad she was a courageous woman!!
Also she did get the last laugh as she left behind a smart,strong and cautious daughter Elizabeth 1.
im proud to be English. not British, English.
this woman is how i think anne would have actually looked, unlike the glamourisation of her in films.
Anne was sexy rather than beautiful and had huge charisma, style and grace. Her "eyes were black and beautiful and invited to conversation". The woman playing her here just looks like a middle aged housewife.
@wanagi006 I found that Anne didn't have six fingers on her left hand, she had a wart/mole growing on it.
Music from 7:27 . Does anybody know its name?
Go. Seriously, go to England, if you ever have the chance.
I always wanted to since age 11, got to on my 30th birthday as a solo trip! Went back a year ago with my significant other. It's my favorite holiday retreat, I try to go at least every other year.
AHH! Is that woman actually handling those old parchment documents with her bare hands?!
The edges are frayed so I am initially thinking they are the original. PLZ!! tell me they are copies! If not, I am sickened and offended on so many levels!
DashRipr0ck Handling them with bare hands is far safer than wearing unnecessary gloves for a multitude of reasons. Gloves dull the sense of feeling in the hands holding and protecting the documents, they also pose a risk of the material snagging the document. The list goes on. As someone who has worked in special and rare collections, I’d be more concerned with the application of the terrible white gloves so frequently seen on TV.
it's..beautiful
You again Dominic!
Anne Boleyn provided one of the greatest monarchs of all time....Elizabeth I. She out did ole dad. Bet that would surprise Henry, had he lived to see it.
Henry. I think would have surprised and pleased that his daughter made such a great monarch
Katherine of Aragon was right: her daughter could rule. It was Henry VIII's insistence due to Saelic law in England that a male needed to sit on the throne. That all occurred because of the hash William the Conqueror's daughter Matilda made to begin with. Henry was wrong to put Katherine aside. Just plain wrong.
Yes, wrong, but he wanted a son and it was incumbent on him to produce one or more. He didn't want his dynasty to die out.
Problem was that despite what you'd find online about Katherine as Regent, she actually screwed up her regency badly, making decisions extremely late. Ghosting the main duty of defending the Kingdom, as if Scots were ever bluffing about attacking English.
(She had been given month notice that Scots will invade and she gave order to raise levies in Middlands only on 3rd of September when month was up and Scots crossed the border! It doesn't take genius to realise with her husband and many nobles fighting in France-and taking some of the soldiers with them, that North would be short of men and would need reinforcements. Earl of Surrey went into battle on 9th of September, knowing he had far less men, worse equipment and enemy against him was in advantageous position on top of hill...How on earth he won?! Pure strategy of old shrewed commander I guess. But certainly not because of support of Katherine or any decision of hers. What Katherine actually did through out her Regency?...Actually she just sewed banners and flags.)
She never was anywhere near Flodden, wasn't even at North.
She didn't put Earl of Surrey at charge of Northern army, her husband did before he left.
And her supposed speech to troops is recorder only by guy who wrote ,unbiased' chronicles for her family, who never stepped foot into England. Man who was Spanish ambassador at the time-Luis Caroz and rest of England, and other ambassadors-nobody mentions it. It's was just fictional propaganda.
Katherine being named Regent and shrewing it up might have been one of reasons, why her husband was later against women becoming rulers.
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And don't believe Katherine was some innocent gentle flower.
She was in no way saint and very often didn't do as she preached.
She had played her part in the marriage becoming bitter, same as her husband. Only their daughter was innocent.
My Dream before I die...!
Her end was horrible, but one cannot rewrite history, nor look into the minds of those living then. Londoners loathed and mocked her.
They weren't allowed to criticize the king so made her a scapegoat.
Yet Anne saved some protestants from the stake.
@@juanitarichards1074 Oh, they still criticized. Some lost their heads over it, or spent some time in the Tower.
I would really like a graphic artist, like this great one here, to do a representation of a person being hung, drawn and quartered. I am not kidding. I really would. He could probably sell it to documentary producers and such.
ruby red WHY?
She played and lost.
What happened to this palace?
The Tower of London still stands. It is just not used as a prison anymore. It is said that, if the resident ravens leave, the British Monarchy would cease to exist.
This mistress got what was coming to her
Poor Katherine Grey suffered at Elizabeth I hands in this tower
I wonder what she would have said if she would have known her husband tried to do the same with their son.
Ha maybe you should take your own advice, it was Henry's sister Mary who was married to Louis XII of France. Anne's sister Mary was a mistress to his son Francis I but was never a queen, she was married to William Carey, then to William Stafford. The wives weren't just gotten rid of as you say, Henry was happy w/ Catherine of Aragon but when she produced no living sons & could have no more children Henry had to find a way to remarry so he could have a son & heir. As king that was most important.
Crystal L. I believe he also annulled the marriage because of the love he had for Anne. Pope Clement offered to legitimize any children Anne bore him without leaving his wife. However, he loved her so much he wanted her as his wife instead of using her as a mistress/baby factory. Also during that time religion ruled over their lives, which is why their Bible was called the book of hours. With Henry reading his Bible and finding in Leviticus that taking your brothers wife would leave you childless, explained to him that was why he only had one child who survived a daughter which in the Tudor age, daughters didn't count.
@@smithamy1982 Actually earliest version of Leviticus said: They shall die childless. Instead of they shall be childless. Which has actually very different meaning.
No children at all. Seeing all your children die before you.
Horrible fate.
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It is possible that Henry knew the earlier version of Leviticus, which would then perfectly fit upon his marriage. His children by Katherine were dying one by one, often even prior to being born. (Just 2 were lived for more than few minutes after birth.)
Mary's being alive would then not change a thing, because she could die later on(just as his brother did) and her living was just to prolong suffering and punishment of her parents.
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But that already in his time, this crucual sentence might have been rewritten by some scribes and hence others might have known the leviticus with the newer meaning.)
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I agree he was sexist, but I think the two versions of Leviticus should be taken into account.
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Also I don't think it was that much about loving Anne but punishing Katherine, who in his mind tricked him into marrying her under false pretence of being virgin. He believed her, but probably due to being very young himself and secluded for his teenage years he was probably very inexperienced in bed.
He might have trully not know if she was or wasn't virgin on their wedding night. Then when Leviticus gave him ,explanation' of why his children were dying, instead of putting blame upon him(because he chose to marry her...(believing her over his brother), hence dooming his children), he focused on Katherine supposedly lying to him and being at fault.
He was silly killing them off and divorcing them, he was the king, he could have had them all at once!
there is no proof that she was 32 years old
@sallynse Agree, 1507 is more likely date of her birth. Way more evidence towards it.
The person who acts as Anne looks nothing like her.
She might, it was actually said she wasn't pretty.
There is lots of misconception on how Anne actually looked like. For example she wasn't blackhaired or ravenhaired.
Most likely she was auburn or brown-reddish. Hever castle portrait very likely went through darknening of pigments, but earliest copies of that potrait show Anne's hair as very into red.
And most of Henry VIII's wives and lovers were redhaired. He had type!
Anne was great and Henry 8 barely a human being !
No she wasn't. She was like any other ambitious woman - good and bad. She didn't deserve to be murdered, but she doesn't deserve to be idealized either. Her one act of forcing Henry VIII into marriage forever changed any security women had when married.
He was human being, but went through many traumas in his childhood, teenage years, then as young man he lost 6-8 children by Katherine, marriage to Katherine was very toxic already by 1514 and they argued even prior, his friends were dying one by one,...
I think eventually something inside him broke and his heart slowly turned to stone.
@@steppy3736 ambitious women are automatically bad? wow
@@90sHONEY read that again...I wrote "good and bad".
Stole the crown against the true Queen Isabella
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sadly the royal aristocracy were not entirely eliminated by execution
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oh my 32yrs and poor Ann fell pregnant …
For that time … Ann was an Old Woman …….
So … For that Time …. Henry was an Old Man …..
Please Research …. Close to the truth for that Time and Age ….
Ann and The Mad Man Henry
Were Classed as Elderly … Back Then ...
Anne might have been born(and probably was) in 1507, which would make her just 25 when she got married.
There is lost of things that in my opinion suggest that 1507 is more likely than 1501 as her year of birth.
I seriously doubt Henry VIII would even marry her that old(he married his last wife that old, but he already had son by that time), because Katherine of Aragon had early menopause at just 33.
(She fasted a lot and that might have contributed to that...))
But at 25 she would still have cca 10 childbearing years before her.
@@janehaylay1152 hi ... I wonder if
Katherine of Aragon was the only one to have a biological child to Henry. I wonder this because he had serious sexual diseases that would have rendered him unable to have sexual relations never mind get a woman pregnant. 😉
Anne was looked upon by Henry's subjects as a witch, because she had a sixth digit on her left hand. She went above and beyond to try to keep it from view. The people always hated her for the whole dissolution of Henry's marriage to Katherine.
wanagi006 actually it's a myth she did not have six fingers on one hand. That myth actually didn't come about until many many years after her death.
She did not have six fingers. They found her skeleton and she had no defects at all. The king was planning to leave Katherine before he ever met Anne and had Wolsey scouting a French princess for him. He wanted a son above all else and Katherine was in menopause by this time. The people were not allowed to criticize the king so made Anne the scapegoat.
@@juanitarichards1074 Supposedly Anne's skeleton, we're not sure if it indeed was her. The exhamination happened in 19th century...So no DNA test.
I always wondered about Katherine's menopause. She had it in cca 1518, which is weird. At 33?
That is too early even for that time!
There are records of noblewomen prior to Katherine, giving birth when they were well over 35, some over 40!
I wonder if her excessive fasting had anything to do with that. Or her weight.
@@janehaylay1152 They had anthropologists examine the skeletons and found that Anne Boleyn and Katherine Howard were buried in each others graves, thus they had the wrong names on their plaques. Katherine Howard was smaller in stature than Anne and did not have Anne's long graceful neck. Now you might have time to hang on here all day and give book length lectures, but I do not. Thus I don't go into minute detail about everything I know and have read throughout my 60 years of reading life.