If the present swine Prince Charles Battenberg (Windsor) had had the power he'd have concocted the same lies and I've no doubt the queen would have helped and they'd have executed HRH Diana Princess of Wales. Well somehow they did, didn't they???
Anne Boleyn is my favorite of all Henry VIII wives...
And Elizabeth I is my favorite queen ever!
I always think what it had happened if Anne had given birth a son, but I always answer me that if Anne had given birth a son, Elizabeth had not been queen...
Love Dorothy's portrayal. I'm also an admirer of Charlotte Rampling's portrayal but do feel the latter focussed far too much on her cunning and ambition whilst not giving equal focus on her political and religious inclinations. Tutin's performance I think, depicts the more tumultous relationship she shared with Henry and like the Rampling performance, highlights her ambition, self-confidence, assertiveness with a touch of hysteria.
I think time caused King Henry and Anne Boleyn fertility problems. She was older and all the hate directed towards her no doubt caused her a great deal of stress.He was older and his,ahem,little swimmers might have been a bit weaker. If they could have married earlier in both their primes,a son might have been born and survived.
0:49 shows Anne's problem. Katherine of Aragon survived 24 years as his Queen as she did not PESTER him about the mistresses as long as he came back to her in the end, while, The Boleyn nags and nags and nags him, and, thus, he gets bored, and lops of her head!
@24Abstract because she could have been 32 at her marriage to Henry, or, she could have been 26 at her marriage. Either way, she was in her late twenties/early thirties, at the time of marriage, and, the miscarriages pushed her over the edge in looks.
Good point. Henry first wooed Anne in 1527, and it must also be remembered that she spent the years 1519 to 1521 at the French court as a lady in waiting to Queen Claude. This weakens the birthdate of 1507, as twelve years old would have been too young to send a girl away to a foreign court. The 1501 date bears more feasibility here, and also explains why Anne kept rushing Henry in the early 1530s, as she was getting on in years.
Also, when Anne miscarried in 1536, she was going on 35, and Henry probably thought this was her last shot, as Catherine had her last child at 33. I doubt if Henry would have been so eager to dismiss a wife who was only 29, as that would still have given her a good amount of time to produce another child. Funny how most of his later wives were a bit older when he married them: Jane Seymour (27), Anne of Cleves (25) and the twice widowed Catherine Parr (31).
Henry was a real pig- a dog and a selfish bastard. He was willing to kill Anne and killed many others just for admiring her.
God did not mean for England to be ruled by a man- and what poetic justice it was that Anne's daughter became England's greatest Queen. I can hear Anne laughing now.....
What I don't understand is why Anne had to be beheaded. Couldn't she just have been banished away from the palace or something?? What a pigheaded masochist Henry was.
@hautxtalons If he simply divorced Anne he'd be made a public fool infront of Europe. It would be proof that HE was wrong. But having her arrested with these trumped up charges it was "HER" fault and thus Henrys ego would stay intact.
The problem Anne was that she was so ambitious and it pretty much consumed her. Her uncle used her because he knew of her ambition and used it, not caring she would die in the end.
A turbulent time throughout Europe. All European Kings were persecuting heretics at this time. It was 70 thousand over the 40 year reign. And that figure is not certain, just an estimate.
Keith Mitchell is a great stage actor, with the advantage of actually looking like Henry VIII. Henry was tall, blond and well built. He was also temperamental, arrogant and self centered.
I don't necessarily think Anne Boleyn was a bad character. I think she was actually born in the wrong generation so-to-speak. She was strong-headed and knew what she wanted. If I'm not mistaken, she was more or less forced into this situation by her family who were power hungry?
I find it kind of hard to have sympathy for Anne Boleyn, since she plotted from the start to seduce Henry, even though he was married to Catherine of Aragon at the time.
but she didn't deserve to die. Also, Henry was planning to divorce Catherine before Anne came onto the scene. If it hadn't have been Anne, it would have been someone else. Wolsey was planning for him to marry a french princess, renee.
I'm not sure if she ever loved Henry. Anne's great love was Henry Percy, and Cardinal Wolsey, on King Henry's orders, broke their romance. Maybe Anne set her cap at becoming Queen, as a sort of revenge?
I believe that if she had secretly married Percy,and had gotten pregnant by him she would have been 100% better off....but she knew that eventually she would avenge herself with Wolsey, once she had the crown.
One thing is true that when she made Cromwell her enemy...and then she miscarried her son, Henry did finally turn his back on her.
She could never marry Percy- he was pre-contracted, which was as binding as marriage. Imagine how he must have felt, being at Anne's trial and hearing the guilty verdict!
Cardinal Wolsey acted on King's orders because both he and the King wanted to marry Anne with her cousin Butler. It was important for Henry and Wolsey the marriage Boleyn-Butler at that time: 1521.
YeOld, thanks. The Butlers were in Ireland, weren't they? After 1521, why did Henry change that view? I am sooo glad I wasn't around in those days for the marriage market!!
Yes, they were from Ireland and related to the Boleyns. Anne was recalled to England from France to marry her to James Butler in order to resolve a dispute over the Butler-Ormonde inheritance. Later the idea did not prosper maybe Thomas Boleyn wanted the Ormonde earldom for himself and objected the plans that Henry and Wolsey promoted.
YeOlde, thanks. You are a mine of information. I've often wondered if Anne set out to enchant Henry as payback for busting up her romance with Percy. We'll never know. I love Dorothy Tutin's interpretation of Anne!
Uncle Norfolk hated Wolsey and he encouraged Anne to downfall him. Years after he used his niece Catherine Howard in a similar way to destroy Cromwell. On the other hand Anne disliked Wolsey for busting up her romance with Percy.
@YeOldeTune Maybe you can help me. Who is the actor at 3:18. talking to Anne? Thanks. I remembered watching at least some of this in the 70's. Never could figure out who he was.
When Henry took a fancy for Anne Boleyn plans to divorce him from Catherine were advanced. Cardinal Wolsey wanted to marry the King to a French Princess and Henry wanted to have a son. Anne's uncle used his niece to destroy Wolsey.
i don't hate her, I pity her, she was pushed into that relationship and I feel so sorry for her with all the babies she lost, but at the same time I septical of what actually happened, I care about the history not the drama.
Actually, what Anne did to be queen wasn't especially "bad" back then. Yea, she fought for the throne, but there are so many other people in the Tudor period of history who did much worse things. She did have some bad things about her, but in the end, I think Anne was a very good person.
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Anne Boleyn, blimey, she had such a temper. Whether or she was a whore or not there can be no denying she was a bad person for everything her and her family did to others for the throne.
There's something in the look, watchfulness, and charisma of Dorothy Tutin's performance that gets close to every contemporary description there is of Ann Boleyn for me...you've just reminded me I really must get hold of the whole thing and watch it again! Many thanks.
terrible acting
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If the present swine Prince Charles Battenberg (Windsor) had had the power he'd have concocted the same lies and I've no doubt the queen would have helped and they'd have executed HRH Diana Princess of Wales. Well somehow they did, didn't they???
globalman 3 months ago
Dorothy Tutin looks very much like Natalie Wood did in her thirties , uncanny resemblance.
ThePanzerfist44 4 months ago
Anne Boleyn is my favorite of all Henry VIII wives...
And Elizabeth I is my favorite queen ever!
I always think what it had happened if Anne had given birth a son, but I always answer me that if Anne had given birth a son, Elizabeth had not been queen...
LaSofy94 10 months ago
Love Dorothy's portrayal. I'm also an admirer of Charlotte Rampling's portrayal but do feel the latter focussed far too much on her cunning and ambition whilst not giving equal focus on her political and religious inclinations. Tutin's performance I think, depicts the more tumultous relationship she shared with Henry and like the Rampling performance, highlights her ambition, self-confidence, assertiveness with a touch of hysteria.
FallenAngel2021 10 months ago
I think time caused King Henry and Anne Boleyn fertility problems. She was older and all the hate directed towards her no doubt caused her a great deal of stress.He was older and his,ahem,little swimmers might have been a bit weaker. If they could have married earlier in both their primes,a son might have been born and survived.
NicolaWriter 11 months ago
0:49 shows Anne's problem. Katherine of Aragon survived 24 years as his Queen as she did not PESTER him about the mistresses as long as he came back to her in the end, while, The Boleyn nags and nags and nags him, and, thus, he gets bored, and lops of her head!
Jamestopboy 1 year ago
Why does Anne Boleyn look old.
24Abstract 1 year ago
@24Abstract
Is it me or does she look like Elizabeth Montgomery?
ZeroMyHero99 1 year ago
@24Abstract Because she was in her mid thirties by then and distress as well as miscarriages aged her prematurely.
Elisabetta611 1 year ago
@24Abstract because she could have been 32 at her marriage to Henry, or, she could have been 26 at her marriage. Either way, she was in her late twenties/early thirties, at the time of marriage, and, the miscarriages pushed her over the edge in looks.
Jamestopboy 1 year ago
@Jamestopboy
Good point. Henry first wooed Anne in 1527, and it must also be remembered that she spent the years 1519 to 1521 at the French court as a lady in waiting to Queen Claude. This weakens the birthdate of 1507, as twelve years old would have been too young to send a girl away to a foreign court. The 1501 date bears more feasibility here, and also explains why Anne kept rushing Henry in the early 1530s, as she was getting on in years.
ligreekguy 1 year ago
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Also, when Anne miscarried in 1536, she was going on 35, and Henry probably thought this was her last shot, as Catherine had her last child at 33. I doubt if Henry would have been so eager to dismiss a wife who was only 29, as that would still have given her a good amount of time to produce another child. Funny how most of his later wives were a bit older when he married them: Jane Seymour (27), Anne of Cleves (25) and the twice widowed Catherine Parr (31).
ligreekguy 1 year ago
I don't know why Anne Boleyn always thought she was queen when her marriage was not lawful and all of Europe.!
brandie7654 1 year ago
@brandie7654 I guess it has a lot to do with her coronation and the fact that she was called Queen for three years.
TheBullen1 1 year ago 21
i always pause @ 0:28 :)
GoMidoriIsCool 1 year ago
She reminds me so strongly of Rosaland Russel!
Caite33 1 year ago
TheBullen1 i have a question where did u get these lovly intros for the wives? and what are there songs called?
GoMidoriIsCool 1 year ago
I absouletly love Annes dress at 1.19
AmazingAesa 1 year ago
Henry was a real pig- a dog and a selfish bastard. He was willing to kill Anne and killed many others just for admiring her.
God did not mean for England to be ruled by a man- and what poetic justice it was that Anne's daughter became England's greatest Queen. I can hear Anne laughing now.....
TheChickadee8 2 years ago 10
What I don't understand is why Anne had to be beheaded. Couldn't she just have been banished away from the palace or something?? What a pigheaded masochist Henry was.
hautxtalons 2 years ago 2
She was charged of high treason.She had to be killed.
She could have been burned,but Henry chose for her to beheaded and quick,as an act of "kindness".
linegenrou 2 years ago
@hautxtalons If he simply divorced Anne he'd be made a public fool infront of Europe. It would be proof that HE was wrong. But having her arrested with these trumped up charges it was "HER" fault and thus Henrys ego would stay intact.
AmazingAesa 1 year ago
@AmazingAesa he had aldready made A FOOL of himself
halyie 1 year ago
@halyie
Not in his eyes.
AmazingAesa 1 year ago
@hautxtalons she could but i think there were too many charges or she refused to claim elizabeth a bastard and her an illegitimate queen
keepoo246810 1 year ago
long live queen Anne Boleyn who never should have been beheaded
GoMidoriIsCool 2 years ago 3
is'nt dorothy a little old to play Anne Boleyn
backlashalmulla 2 years ago 5
@backlashalmulla
Haha yeah but wow!! She really looks like that portrait of Anne!
hautxtalons 2 years ago 2
it's mean how henry blamed anne
chocolatefountain95 2 years ago 3
anyone else notice the sword pop up? hhahahah
lifeamusesme 2 years ago 3
The problem Anne was that she was so ambitious and it pretty much consumed her. Her uncle used her because he knew of her ambition and used it, not caring she would die in the end.
hogwartsluv 2 years ago 4
Henry was such a sexist bastard.
GoddessofHyrule 2 years ago 6
A turbulent time throughout Europe. All European Kings were persecuting heretics at this time. It was 70 thousand over the 40 year reign. And that figure is not certain, just an estimate.
TheMrGobble 2 years ago
there is a lot more int it than that. it was a political situation not just his desire for a son.
it's not just the romance that people r told about today. it was a very turbulent time.
TheMrGobble 2 years ago
Made more so by Henry. He had 70,000 of his fellow Englishmen put to death.
mmedefarge 2 years ago
Anne Boleyn and Elizabeth are my queens.
GoddessofHyrule 2 years ago 26
Keith Mitchell is a great stage actor, with the advantage of actually looking like Henry VIII. Henry was tall, blond and well built. He was also temperamental, arrogant and self centered.
bookkeeper57 2 years ago 5
One of the best TV's 1970's productions of all times. And Yes, Anne was a victim of her uncle.
ferestrad 2 years ago 2
Jane Rochford was eventually executed, and serve her right.
coralarch 2 years ago
I don't necessarily think Anne Boleyn was a bad character. I think she was actually born in the wrong generation so-to-speak. She was strong-headed and knew what she wanted. If I'm not mistaken, she was more or less forced into this situation by her family who were power hungry?
MizzAmerica913 2 years ago 9
I find it kind of hard to have sympathy for Anne Boleyn, since she plotted from the start to seduce Henry, even though he was married to Catherine of Aragon at the time.
themainthing1974 2 years ago
but she didn't deserve to die. Also, Henry was planning to divorce Catherine before Anne came onto the scene. If it hadn't have been Anne, it would have been someone else. Wolsey was planning for him to marry a french princess, renee.
AnaliaHyrule 2 years ago 11
Maybe because Henry 8th paid too much for merry and bed her. He have to arrest and excetued friends, abandoned wife and daughter, and so on.
ViCkYwAnG0 2 years ago
Agreed, but really, wouldn't a wise woman take note of how he treated others, and be very wary of marrying such a brute?
coralarch 2 years ago
Ann was smart, but I believe she was in love with Henry. She certainly did not want to give him up, and quietly retire like Anne of Cleves did.
Ann knew that her position was unstable, that is why she fought so hard to keep him.
Also, Love makes us snow blind, we cannot see what bad things those that we love do.
mari66101 2 years ago 2
I'm not sure if she ever loved Henry. Anne's great love was Henry Percy, and Cardinal Wolsey, on King Henry's orders, broke their romance. Maybe Anne set her cap at becoming Queen, as a sort of revenge?
coralarch 2 years ago
I believe that if she had secretly married Percy,and had gotten pregnant by him she would have been 100% better off....but she knew that eventually she would avenge herself with Wolsey, once she had the crown.
One thing is true that when she made Cromwell her enemy...and then she miscarried her son, Henry did finally turn his back on her.
mari66101 2 years ago
She could never marry Percy- he was pre-contracted, which was as binding as marriage. Imagine how he must have felt, being at Anne's trial and hearing the guilty verdict!
coralarch 2 years ago
Cardinal Wolsey acted on King's orders because both he and the King wanted to marry Anne with her cousin Butler. It was important for Henry and Wolsey the marriage Boleyn-Butler at that time: 1521.
YeOldeTune 2 years ago
YeOld, thanks. The Butlers were in Ireland, weren't they? After 1521, why did Henry change that view? I am sooo glad I wasn't around in those days for the marriage market!!
coralarch 2 years ago
Yes, they were from Ireland and related to the Boleyns. Anne was recalled to England from France to marry her to James Butler in order to resolve a dispute over the Butler-Ormonde inheritance. Later the idea did not prosper maybe Thomas Boleyn wanted the Ormonde earldom for himself and objected the plans that Henry and Wolsey promoted.
YeOldeTune 2 years ago
YeOlde, thanks. You are a mine of information. I've often wondered if Anne set out to enchant Henry as payback for busting up her romance with Percy. We'll never know. I love Dorothy Tutin's interpretation of Anne!
coralarch 2 years ago
You are welcome.
Uncle Norfolk hated Wolsey and he encouraged Anne to downfall him. Years after he used his niece Catherine Howard in a similar way to destroy Cromwell. On the other hand Anne disliked Wolsey for busting up her romance with Percy.
YeOldeTune 2 years ago
@YeOldeTune Maybe you can help me. Who is the actor at 3:18. talking to Anne? Thanks. I remembered watching at least some of this in the 70's. Never could figure out who he was.
gotch09 1 year ago
@gotch09 Bernard Hepton. He played Cranmer.
YeOldeTune 1 year ago
@YeOldeTune thanks
gotch09 1 year ago
When Henry took a fancy for Anne Boleyn plans to divorce him from Catherine were advanced. Cardinal Wolsey wanted to marry the King to a French Princess and Henry wanted to have a son. Anne's uncle used his niece to destroy Wolsey.
YeOldeTune 2 years ago
Anne was a fine example of how a intelligent,witty,and charming woman can get what she wants in life.
Anne was no beauty, by the standards of her day, but she had mastered the art of charm and sex appeal in her years in the French court.
Her greatest achievement was her daughter Elizabeth, who inherited her mother's attributes.
mari66101 2 years ago 10
The actors are verrry good lookalikes of Henry and Anne.
XXXBOBINXXX1 2 years ago 5
i don't hate her, I pity her, she was pushed into that relationship and I feel so sorry for her with all the babies she lost, but at the same time I septical of what actually happened, I care about the history not the drama.
angeldream2 2 years ago 6
4:54-5:01 Wow...
AnaliaHyrule 2 years ago
Actually, what Anne did to be queen wasn't especially "bad" back then. Yea, she fought for the throne, but there are so many other people in the Tudor period of history who did much worse things. She did have some bad things about her, but in the end, I think Anne was a very good person.
emmieliz23 3 years ago 6
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Anne Boleyn, blimey, she had such a temper. Whether or she was a whore or not there can be no denying she was a bad person for everything her and her family did to others for the throne.
angeldream2 3 years ago
If you hate her why are you watching videos of her? And she was not a whore- whore shouldn't even be used until there's an equivalent word for men.
AnaliaHyrule 2 years ago 6
She is SOOOO good in this role - its the best interpretation of hte character I think so far.
Chutson353 3 years ago 4
Keith Michel was a fine actor.
He seems to be rather overlooked.
templepenn1 3 years ago 5
Keith is the best Henry.
YeOldeTune 3 years ago 6
Where from the execution scene in this clips is taken? It seems to be not from the Movie Six Wives of Henry VIII.
headsman2005 3 years ago
Anne Boleyn was a victim of her own folly But it was, we should not judge her. Thanks to her there would be no future Elizabeth I
jopayluvrobi 3 years ago 7
OH! Doesn't he just make you HATE Henry VIII?! WOW!
webwolf404 3 years ago 4
Out of all the wives, Anne Boleyn's my favorite.
scorpianofthesun 3 years ago 6
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puta zorra ambiciosa, bruja.
extremaduraa 3 years ago
pq estas mirando videos de Ana Bolena si no te gusta?
AndromedaMariaCarmen 3 years ago 3
There's something in the look, watchfulness, and charisma of Dorothy Tutin's performance that gets close to every contemporary description there is of Ann Boleyn for me...you've just reminded me I really must get hold of the whole thing and watch it again! Many thanks.
TheEdibleDormouse 3 years ago 8
There's never been a better acted or written performance for Henry VIII- everyone is just so good.
estefez 3 years ago 4
Oh, I hope he somehow knew that Elizabeth was the Greatest than any king.
starrynightz 3 years ago 10
Not really: in that century, men did not guess that women could do a half assed job of
anything, but cook, clean, put out in bed,
and give birth.
bookkeeper57 3 years ago 5
She had cubes!
duchessmary 3 years ago
Hi! Thank you ever so much!
justlooking213 3 years ago 4
Too right... she kicks ass
TheBullen1 3 years ago
Anne Boleyn is my number 1 Queen!
YeOldeTune 3 years ago 4
Glad you enjoyed! I will do... I've just got to finish uploading the other 3 wives, and i'll do you a dance montage!
TheBullen1 3 years ago
Can you upload the dances?
YeOldeTune 3 years ago 6
My fave serial and chapter!!
YeOldeTune 3 years ago 2