Anne Boleyn Part Eight - Execution

[ZoeCEubanks]

Why did you call her an it

[TheBullen1]

@ZoeCEubanks when, sorry?

[BoxyTheSpaceDog]

FOR ALL THOSE WHO THINK:"Beheading is good/better way to die"

It's well known fact(scientifically proven)that after your head is severed from your body,for about 13 seconds you will be aware of that fact by every nerve in your body,as well as in your mind!So it's not really painless or instantaneous or more humane as few here have suggested.

[KARENCOGS]

Best Q

ueen Anne was Genevieve Bujold in Anne of a Thousands Days. Great movie!

[tinker19841]

Natalie Dormer was the best Ann Boelyn long live Queen Anne

[originalbabygal]

why they killing her?

[SpringSummer2010]

@originalbabygal Politics

[mothermetal523]

sure she did

[MaguiIsabella97]

Natalie Dormer is the best Anne Boleyn ever!

R.I.P Queen Anne!

[Staciegwen]

The executioner looked like he didn't wanna do it

[devils3114]

in all truth ann was accusses of adulrty with her brother and her sister tried to save her it was a quick death and i dont believe she wore a blindfold but im not sure.

[EllieMarianna]

@devils3114 Lol, her sister didn't try to save her. Mary ran away before she was brought down with her siblings. You obviously believe the STORY of The Other Boleyn Girl.

[ChloexDerek4ever]

dude awesome! I read the book it's called "The other Boleyn girl" awesome story but it was a long time ago but I think they beheaded her cause of adultery she couldn't bare king henry's children cause she a miscarriage so it was something like that and her brother died cause he was gay and they found out...if it's wrong please don't blame me that what i read in the story and it was in 7th grade I did so i might be wrong :D

[litnut]

@ChloexDerek4ever Don't believe the book. :) It's ALL inaccurate!

[ChloexDerek4ever]

@litnut really....eh oh well but it was still an awesome book!! >:D

[sarahdoodles]

This really is a well produced little documentary. I thought it was just a tv one uploaded. Anne is easily one of my favourite monarchs and I was really interested in the little details. I love learning new bits and pieces about the Tudors. Amazing, good stuff

[6digit]

King Henry needs to execution too by burning alive!

[hothotheat3000]

She paid her own executioner. BOSS.

[sassuhfrass93]

Did she wear a blindfold?

[CircusZoneTV]

@sassuhfrass93 in reality she did, but in alot of films she doesnt

[litnut]

@CircusZoneTV Actually, no, she wasn't blindfolded.

[34RiverStone]

my failyfound out we're related to Anne Boleyn

so i'm related to Anne Boleyn! he he X)

[PrettyPollyful]

this is scary and creepy AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!

[SORSELR]

i don´t get it, when they dramatise her execution with a scaffold, when the´y made it the french way!

[litnut]

@SORSELR It was done that way so all the people could see it.

[SORSELR]

@litnut , oh sorry wrong word, (iam swedish) ;) i mean that thing they used when they executed with a axe.

historicly annes execution were made the french way, (standing and using sword) ;P

[litnut]

@Ath3mye Mainly because Henry wanted the whole world to know that he had made the right choice with Anne and didn't want anyone to dispute it. Catalina wouldn't have gotten the same because he viewed his marriage to her incestuous. Plus, she was a from a foreign court, and he couldn't risk England falling into the hands of Spain. Anne was the only one this ever happened to. No other Queen received so much, especially since she wasn't royal. He did it so no one would dispute it.

[litnut]

Tsk, tsk, narrator. Anne DID die with the title of Queen. The Act of Supremacy from 1534 granted her the title in her own right, meaning she was Queen on her own and not because she was Henry's wife.

[litnut]

And she didn't pay the executor; it was already taken care of before she arrived. Sheesh, didn't they do any research??!

[EnglishRose719]

Yo, Natalie, Imma let you finish, but Natalie Dormer was the best Anne Boleyn of all time!

[ZeroMyHero99]

@EnglishRose719

Yo, EnglishRose719, I'm real happy for you and imma let you finish, but I completely agree with you!

[EnglishRose719]

@ZeroMyHero99 LOL brilliant

[MsLivilla]

@EnglishRose719 Surely Anne Boleyn was the best Anne Boleyn of all time??

[tishatti]

She was innocent. God bless her. She will rest in peace. I'm not sure if King Henry will....

[chocolatefountain95]

@Smithy8811 That's why I said TRICK question

[Strawberrykisses218]

why was she wearing a gable hood instead of her signature french hood?

[ZeroMyHero99]

@Strawberrykisses218

To give her the image of a traditional English queen.

[caporalchef4]

Glad you replied!! Well, death may not be instantanious but lost of conciousness probably is...Anyways, my point was that, compared to the gas chamber, leathal injection and the old sparky, beheading in a single blow seems the most painless of all. But, hey, I still have my head so, what do I know, LOL!! Cheers, from Canada!

[jmsa007]

There were some fucked up people back then, starting by the k!ng!!!!

[hirus909]

I don't understand how people could stand such a horrible death.

ugh......... really horrible

waiting for being beheaded..... with an ax or sword........

I relly hate Henry

what a cruel man who could execute a woman who he loved once??????

[MrBrian987987]

lets just say the middle ages where fucked up

[absillitoe]

This is an amazing video and paints a quite diffierent picture of Anne than that which I have gleaned from Alison Weir. (Great job! Must have been a lot of work.) Do you know of a biography that does justice to her?

[ElleCM2]

This is amazing, thank you so much for posting this series on a very misunderstood Queen, ,I have since grown fond of Queen Anne, and realize she was not the whore or delinquent she was made out to be.

[madisonelectronic]

So nice to know Hank died in pain and comstant pain, although not for long. Jesus as usual spares the assholes but the faithful spend years in misery with little or no consolation.

[KikyoChanXD]

Catherine of Aragon is still #1 to me, but I love Anne just as much. Without Anne, we wouldn't have Elizabeth, and Elizabeth is my absolute favorite Queen.

[puncheex]

It's all well and good to remember Anne so nicely, based on a fictionalization of her and Henry's life. Just remember that is all it is, a story. It is rather doubtful that our current ideas about what makes a beautiful or desirable woman, or man, for that matter, wore at all well in the time of the Tudors. Henry was about the last of the unrestrained, absolute monarchs; it was great to be his friend, as long as it lasted. Ask More, or Woolsey, or Anne, or Catherine.

[tuvahope]

I just wonder, what did you think about the movie: "the other Boleyn girl"? :)

[SophieGizzy]

her life ended courageously but i don't understand why it had to end so soon. how can a life be made a suitable match to any crime.

[lovgrj11]

Great Job on these videos! :-)

[10Mboy]

how could somebody be so evil

[TorchTheWitch]

@10Mboy Actually, Ann's beheading was rather kind - Henry imported a swordsman from France so her head would come off with a single stroke (an axe usually took 2 or 3 strokes). Executions for traitors were especially horrid - hung, taken down wile still living and then drawn and quartered. Other grisly executions of the times included being split open and having the intestines slowly pulled out and burned before your eyes, etc. This was an extraordinarily barbaric time in history.

[10Mboy]

@TorchTheWitch hmm although he made her pay for the swordmen who else but i guess were shes going she won't be needed money :)

[TorchTheWitch]

@10Mboy Henry paid both for the transportation of the swordsman as well as provided the money customarily given to the executioner by the condemed to pay for a more merciful death (which in a way I guess is a bit like a bribe). It was also customary for the executioner to ask for forgiveness from condemed and customery for the condemned to give him that forgiveness.

[loquatiousbadger]

@TorchTheWitch

Maybe so. Though I've not heard of many botched axe beheadings, usually just one stroke like Lady Jane Grey or the Duke of Buckingham. One version of the story I had heard was that the French method was a sly insult to the "French manners" Ann flaunted in court. She'd been accused of using French methods learned in her teens, to seduce the king, ie, being saucy rather than demure!

[TorchTheWitch]

@loquatiousbadger I wouldn't think so. Anne was the first queen ever to be executed in Britain and it seems more likely Henry was a bit nervous how that would be perceived. Although the crimes she was accused of were among the gravest and she had been rejected as the true queen she was still beheaded on Tower Green rather than on Tower Hill where her brother and the four men accused of fraternizing with her were the day before.

[TorchTheWitch]

@loquatiousbadger ooops... forgot to mention... It's not that axe beheadings were botched it's just the nature of axe beheadings. This was the reason the French invented the guillitine afterall... so that the head would come off all the time on one clean stroke. And there were some genuinely botched axe beheadings... google Margaret Poole, Countess of Salisbury. Part of the reason for the Catholic Church Beautifying her was due to her extremely botched execution... utterly horrible.

[loquatiousbadger]

@TorchTheWitch

I will google this. I'm not sure WHY...but I will. It's such a horrid subject matter, but I've always been drawn to the morbid stuff.

There are three things I won't look into, Gas chambers, lethal injection and electric chair. I wonder if I'm alone in thinking the fake "clinical" aspect makes it more sinister and barbaric?

[chocolatefountain95]

Here's a trick question- When Anne Boleyn was executed she didn't spill a single drop of blood on the block-true or false?

[iluvwinterweather]

@chocolatefountain95 True; she was beheaded with a sword as she knelt upright, not with an axe as she laid her head down upon the block. Good trick question!

[TorchTheWitch]

@iluvwinterweather Sorry, but that's false. When the head is severed from the body blood absolutely gushes - tons of it. Her having knelt for her exucution makes no difference either since the body falls over as there is no more brain signals telling it to do anything. The body falling over would most definitely spill out a load of blood. The heart doesn't immediately stop pumping either, so blood would be spouting out just from that alone. Beheadings are the bloodiest of deaths.

[iluvwinterweather]

@TorchTheWitch I didn't mean that she didn't bleed; I meant that she didn't have a block at her execution. Oh, boy, do I know that she...well, it's a horrible way to die. Sorry that I misread the question.

[caporalchef4]

@iluvwinterweather Actually, I think it is one of the most humane way to die. Granted, it is bloody and gory, but the death is painless and instantanious. Given that the executionner doesn't miss, of course...That is why the Guillotine was invented. Poeple die horrible deaths everyday. For example, lung cancer is a more than horrible way to die...Personnaly, if I had a choice between suffering martyrdom at the hand of a deadly desease and this, I would choose to have my head cut off!

[iluvwinterweather]

@caporalchef4 Hey, I replied within three hours! *cheers* I get your point, but I'm not completely sold that beheading is an instant death. But cancer is a slow, painful and terrible way to pass on.

[GRATZIANI2002]

7:26 nice guy the executioner..

[bradders666]

I absolutely loved watching these videos. It's good to see that you've compiled footage from various media too. It's also good to see that, for the most part, the depictions of Anne Boleyn are fairly consistent visually and none of the false myths about her have been perpetuated through them. Ending with footage in the Chapel of St. Peter was a really nice touch too =]. I intend to visit the tombs of all Henry VII’s descendants next year once I complete my degree. These videos are fantastic =].

[naomilaboo]

Well this was an amazing video!

[dogyearrex]

Thank you for this video.. I'm Korean.. but I Absolutely love the English history.. and Anne Boleyn definitely is one of my most favorite characters.. she was actually asked to leave the palace with princess Elizabeth by Henry the 8th, then she should be saved, but she refused so her daughter gets to stay in the court as a royal member. She basically choose to die for her daughter's future. i respect that a lot. she was indeed a great queen.

[SamFrenchUK]

I really enjoyed watching this documentary, thank you for posting it. Natalie Dormer did such an amazing portrayal of Anne Boleyn :D

[bolden212]

Anne Boleyn did not deserve this.

[chocolatefountain95]

19th May 2010

Rest in Peace Anne

After 474 years since your death, your still alive in our hearts

[Rachieeeful]

Henry 8th still loved anne, he went a little mad after he beheaded her, but he was so desperate to have a son, and he couldnt cope with her anger anymore, when she gave birth to a 'monster' he accused her of witchcraft so nobody would blame him, he accused her of adultery with a number of men including her brother and she had to watch all the men being beheaded

who argues with a king??

[GRATZIANI2002]

@Rachieeeful if this Henry should live in muslim area maybe nobody argue with him..but a guy who's Christian...10 rules means nothing for him..

[ausendundeinenacht]

@Rachieeeful IF you for one are being IRONIC, a rare thing in these comments, then I totally agree with you...

[Goggy021]

:-)

[BRUTUALTRUTH]

I had a meal once in honour of Anne Boleyn - it was a chop!

[Jess140594]

@BRUTUALTRUTH hahaha lol luvvit XD

[hlimkb]

is she the mom of Elizabeth 1?

[Cla900]

yes

[vintajbe]

yes

[LeannaMontana]

Yes! Anne Boleyn is the mother of Elizabeth Tudor

[BRUTUALTRUTH]

The slaughter of a woman was horrifying then as it is now! All because that fat bloated pig of psycho Henry VIII had a bent little percy!

[kendraMcgraw]

So sad! I hate henry for kill this Anne, i loved her character!

She was a good queen and her daughter one of greatest queens of England!

[stokrotka1011]

Anne and her daughter Elizabeth was the best Queens ever!

[kendraMcgraw]

@stokrotka1011 Anne didn't had much time, but Elizabeth was one of the best queens ever, she saved England

[rockcandy1234567890]

oh my gosh! the day after my birthday!!!!

[annaboleynrulez]

She's my favorite Queen!

R.I.P Anne!

[stokrotka1011]

R.I.P Queen Anne Boleyn

[coralarch]

Thanks for this. Every 19 May, I think of this enigmatic woman...

[TheLeaveTaking]

oh sweet jesus it must be such a HORROR to kneel upon the scaffold, waiting for the final stroke. I know its macabre but I wonder if Anne felt any pain. I hope not. she was inncocently put to death and Henry knew it, damn fat bastard. he was so pathetic, really.

[BRUTUALTRUTH]

He was a Norma Bates fat bastard!

[hell0hkitty]

norma?

[BRUTUALTRUTH]

Norman Bates, I mean! ;)

[PiccoloCavolo]

in a documentary i sww it said she felt no pain and if she did it was for nano seconds because henry ordered the finest swordsmen to ehead her so she wouldnt feel pain

[raylin88]

how can anyone imagine what it feels like getting your head cut off if they still have there own head lol

[ItsChillyBrrr]

There own head? It's their, and not funny.

Grow up.

[raylin88]

What the heck are you talking about.......

i was saying that how can anyone tell someone that getting there head cutt off wont be painful if they havent had there head cut off themselves......i wasnt trying to be funny....or disrespectful i love everything about anne

[ItsChillyBrrr]

?????

[raylin88]

thats what i said ???????

[dinastein44]

I believe beheading is the quickest and least painful execution - but the psychical stress, knowing that your head is going to be severed from your body must be immense. Like you, I hope Anne's death was quick and easy - she was a very religious woman and that must have helped somewhat in her ordeal. She is one of the historical figures I most love and admire.

[MrSmokeyBaer]

If you look at history, beheading was a very problematic execution. It took three strokes to get Bloody Mary's head off, and all accounts state the head was almost unrecognizable after the fact. The guillotine also needed two or three tries on occasion.

[dinastein44]

@MrSmokeyBaer

Err... excuse me. Bloody Mary, Henry VIIIs daughter, big sister of Queen Elizabeth - was not beheaded (though she deserved to be, cruel fanatical bitch that she was)! Mary Queen of Scots - Elizabeth's cousin, was beheaded, and as you said, it took three strokes.

[MrSmokeyBaer]

So right, sorry, got my Mary's mixed up

[ultradumbass]

ah ok. ignore my statement then. i didn't notice someone already correcting you.

[BitterBarbara]

@MrSmokeyBaer really? wow I didn't know that abou the gulliotine.

[ultradumbass]

??? bloody mary? what are you talking about? she was not executed, she past away on november 18 1558 at 6:30 am while a church service was going on in her bedroom. and so you know, bloody mary is actually Queen Mary 1.

[julixjt]

Why was she executed?

[LadyyAmyy]

she had another lover and was seen kissing and hugging with i think 4 or 5 people. go on wikipedia and you will find out

[julixjt]

No, I asked my teacher and she said because her husband THOUGHT she had lovers, but she really didnt, but he believed so, and she got chop chop afterwards (chop chop means head taken off, my teacher sas it like that and it is quiet funny

[hell0hkitty]

you're a moron. :)

[julixjt]

why?

[coralarch]

Julix- Henry was sick of her and she failed to produce a son.

[julixjt]

Ohhh, well, my teacher said because henry said she was sleeping with other guys but it wasnt true, but thanks!

[coralarch]

The allegations of incest and adultery were made to furnish an excuse to kill her- but I believe her to be innocent. Fact is, she had a foul temper, and Henry preferred "feminine" women, like his mother, Elizabeth of York, whom Jane Seymour resembled. The lack of a male heir also sealed Anne's fate.

[puncheex]

@julixjt: Let's see...

- She was intelligent & willful, which attracted Henry but wore poorly as queen;

- she lived in intrigue, trusted the wrong people (Cromwell & Cranmer);

- The court was full of ambitious people, each out to get as much as he could;

- Henry was about the last of the kings who felt they ruled by absolute right, but actually he was manipulable;

- Henry's aim to have a male heir was thwarted 3 or 4 times by her (the way he saw it), and he didn't take thwarting well.

[anneandkatherine22]

R.I.P Anne Boleyn!

[starflower17]

ok well u didnt have to be so mean ik her story but maby not the bad part about it. and u dont have to be so bitchi! im sorry

[AWickedMind]

So she was buried naked in an arrow chest??

[Jamestopboy]

yes.... but not right away... there was a gap in between, and it wasn't the king or executioner that did it

[starflower17]

her story is so sad in the end. and people didnt give her a chance! thats crap

[puncheex]

@starflower17: You think she had it bad, read about Lady Jane Grey. Edward, Henry's son, died at 17. On advice of his privy council, he named Jane his cousin as his successor, ahead of Mary and Elizabeth, his half sisters. Jane at age 16 become queen, but 9 days later Mary deposed her. She only beheaded one conspirator, and put Jane comfortably in the Tower, but Jane's father raised another revolt. When it failed, Mary executed them all, since Edward had made her a permanent threat.

[Leeloominai356]

I love how they still put flowers on her grave!

[christinedaae87]

thank you so much for these videos! the history's so fasinating and using film images really helps you underderstand it better. brilliant!! xxx

[theothertudorgirl]

Your documentry is fantastic! I am inspired by yours, I am working on one about Katherine Howard. I hope it will be as good as yours!

[madvlad1]

Amazing little clip you have put together here. Very well done!

I'm also glad to see you have strong connection with tudor history, like me =D

[YellowElf13]

What did he say at the end about the prophecy? I don't think I understood correctly.

[deloufu]

Hey Bullen1 you did an outstanding job putting this video together. For the record, you put a lot very hard work to make this outstanding keep up the good work.

[TheBullen1]

Thanks so much for saying so! She is a huge part of my life so i hope that I have done her justice! I'm fairly stuck as to which direction to go in next, so any suggestions would be much appreciated. My problem is that I have SOOOO many areas that I want to cover, and so little time with Uni! xx

[cheerleader4lyfe235]

Oh man, I love Anne. If I could go into a time machine, I'd go back to the time of Henry VIII and meet her. God bless her.

[analuhphantom]

All I have to say is: Thank you so much Owen, for doing these amazing videos about Anne, always showing what an amazing and remarkable woman she was.

My friend, I think you are the Eric Ives of youtube (:

[TheBullen1]

Wow that is praise indeed... Ives is pretty much a hero of mine and has inspired me greatly. So glad that you enjoyed :)

[AndromedaMariaCarmen]

Anne is my favorite queen.

[Twilight5388]

@AndromedaMariaCarmen ikr

[chinagrrl]

This is a wonderful documentary on the sad and tragic end of Anne Boleyn. Whatever one thinks of her, all can say that she met her death calmly and with dignity. Anne definitely had class to the very end.

[TheBullen1]

She certainly did, a very courageous woman indeed. Glad that you enjoyed :)

[pieceofleg2biteon]

you are a legend i've been chomping at the bit for s good Anne Boleyn Documentary. Have watched david starkey's great one so much i know it off by heart! Is that your voice???

[TheBullen1]

Im so glad that you enjoyed! Yup thats my voice hehehe. Cheers for commenting :)

[Jameremail]

All I can say is .....WOW. So Amazing!

[TheBullen1]

Aww thanks very much :)

[XxCrazygal2007xX]

great video you should be proud of yourself they're amazing and this was done so beautifully, almost brought a tear to my eye x

[TheBullen1]

Aw thanks my love, thats so cute! :)

[XxCrazygal2007xX]

well its so well done! theres always one thing that confused me though, and that is when she said 'i hear you say i wont die before noon, im sorry therefore as i thought to be dead and past my pain' and kingston replied by saying the execution will be painless, thats always confused me because i never believed she was talking about her execution, i always thought she was referring to her emotional pain after what she had been through, afterall she had much joy in death, according to kingston xx

[TheBullen1]

Its funny, I've always thought the same, and I think that is why she replied using her black wit. Her courage must have been amazing to have faced death in the way she did.

[LittleGalinda2]

Thanks for all of these great videos on Anne. I've watched them all at least twice because they're so interesting. :)

[TheBullen1]

Aw thanks, glad u enjoyed :)

[aneiasl]

Such a brave woman

[TheBullen1]

Absolutely :)