Anne Boleyn's last words

[ZZZANNAMARIYZZZ]

What's name of this movie?

[ZZZANNAMARIYZZZ]

I can't believe I found HISTORIC execution speech of Anne Boleyn at last!!!!

[PrincessofRoseRed]

Isn't this her execution day? why is she smiling as she says this? shes seems much too enthusiastic for this role....she seems like a good actress trapped in a role not suitable for her. I think Natalie Dormer filled this role much better at this moment. R.I.P. Queen Anne Boleyn

[PrincessofRoseRed]

Isn't this her execution day? why is she smiling as she says this? shes seems much too enthusiastic for this role....she seems like a good actress trapped in a role not suitable for her. I think Natalie Dormer filled this role much better at this moment. R.I.P. Queen Anne Boleyn

[sehgalpp]

English kings must've been mad.

How could Henry VIII kill the woman he loved?

And repent later.

Bloody Psycho.

[Bnicleve]

@barbiedoll811 Natalie Dormer and Natalie Portman did the best jobs playing Anne Boleyn. This actress is ass.



[Natali9419]

According to the portraits of this queen,this actress looks better than other artists,whom I ever seen in this role.

[TheSuhaildxb]

that was very brave looking women seems like a graduation speech !!! bad acting guidance !

[cassandraDT13]

wow. that actually gave me goosebumps!

[cranky1chick]

"And if any person will meddle of my cause, I require them to judge the best."

A line I've remembered throughout the years as I've read about the Tudors, in particular about Anne. Thanks for your many, many excellent videos.

[NeteNeteNe]

I read a book called 'Doomed Queen Anne' last year, a 'diary' in her memory, one of THE best books I've come accross. Seriously, I don't understand why there's all this stupid teenage-romance in this time that we consider entertaining. But aside from the rant, I find it very interesting how she said such wonderful things of Henry, after his accusing her of adultery with 4 men and her own brother, and then he married another woman the day after her execution <. <

[Rayarena]

@NeteNeteNe I heard a scholar say that she was careful not to offend Henry, because she did not want him to retaliate against her family. I'm sure that she didn't think that Henry was as good as she described him. That said, she did show constraint by speaking so well of him. Many people knowing that they have nothing to lose would let him have it at that moment! I think that I would have called him everything from a S.O.B. on.

[NeteNeteNe]

@Rayarena Something like that was in the book, too. For a long time, years, she was his "lover", always promised to be married, to be queen, and couln't take being so helpless anymore, so she finally made love to him and bore child, and he soon married her after that. It said many a time in the book that he constantly tried to make her his mistress and tantrumed, but was good to her none the less. She was showered with gifts, authorities, praise, and love even at death, making a swift execution.

[moremoxi]

They were so stoic and accepting. I know it's probably true, but, it's hard to get it, in this day and age. In this situation wouldn't one really want to say something like, 'Hey, have a nice life, Henry, you sadistic fuck!!' I wonder how much worse for her, if she had. At least Katherine Howard got a little aggression in there, with the words, "I die a queen, but, I would rather have lived as Culpeper's wife"...(HA!) 'Here, Henry, here's a little knife in the gut...let me twist it a little'...

[moremoxi]

@moremoxi ...actually, I'm wrong, I think...she really said, "I would rather have died as Culpeper's wife"...

[gabbacadabra07]

She doesn't seem too torn apart about getting beheaded and all...kind of like a school headmistress giving a lecture to unruly children...

[hop1pop]

Everytime i see an interpretation of anne's execution, Im looking for the highlight of sorrow with the blood and stuff... Dissapointed. i mean horror movies have gore and stuff... why not add truth to what really happend in history?

[godofbuddys]

lol this is my ansester lmao.... not lieing

[moremoxi]

@godofbuddys Wow...that's pretty cool...she was totally wronged, then, you probably know...just wondering if it makes you feel any angrier than it does the rest of us...

[TudorRose85]

Out of all Henry VIII queen's Katharine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn are my favorites. They were the most interesting and the most Beautiful in my opinion.

[returnoftheramble]

say, the law has judged me in the human eye of a man who reigns over you and once over me, but now I am to go to my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ in Heaven. It is Heaven's judgement that judges all, knows all, sees all for what it is. The sins of man are judged by the father and trinkle down in rain and rainbow's promise of truth.

[Rayvana]

I know she was strong and didn't cry while she spoke before she died but this actress is too forceful. Anyone that's about to be executed would be a bit more...emotive.

[stokrotka1011]

R.I.P Queen Anne!

[MsBrezee]

henry VIII is idiot..

[MrMeineNamen]

was it the law or Henry that damned her...

[NA60469]

Henry

[pigpenthecat]

@MrMeineNamen It was Henry VIII so he could justify his horrific behavior toward women and continue to abuse them.

[machete013]

Queen Anne spoke this before her execution:

"The King has been kind to me. He raised me from being a maid to being a queen. Now, he will raise me to be a martyr."

[annaboleynrulez]

R.I.P Queen Anne!

[hogwartsluv]

I think Anne was brave for taking her fate into her own hands and doing something really daring for her time. She was a lot of things, but for sure she wasn't a coward. Henry did not deserve those last words Anne spoke of him at all. RIP queen Anne Boleyn.

[pigpenthecat]

@hogwartsluv Do you really think, she would say Oh, thank you King Henry VIII for conjuring up lies and then ordering my head cut off? Just a thought. He deserved it and then some.

[MarijuanaGood4U]

Bring on Geneviève Bujold!

[YoungestMangaka]

really the Duke of Norfolk was the evil one behind a lot of these tales. He was really Satan's Prime Minister.

[throwntomato]

she was cute.Henry the 8th was an idiot!

[GARRYKINGLIVE]

the one from Tudors wasnt the real one but was more heart felt this is so reherased although this is the real speech. The actress could have rendered some emotion to it

[UsagiDreams]

They got the speech right, but she seems to be an older Anne than most. Henry VIII was a good King in the early years, then women started messing with his head. He was apparently really handsome when he was young as well. Anne was described as not the most handsomest woman in the world but had a wit that captured the King. She also had 6 fingers on her left hand, but that wasn't mentioned in the description by the Spanish ambassador.

[hippiechick19]

actually, they got it right by the end of anne's life, not before. in fact, anne looked older after elizabeth's birth and was described as "that old woman"

[UsagiDreams]

Oh yeah, that's true.

[UsagiDreams]

Woops, sorry for my earlier comment. I had forgotten that the source that said she had 6 fingers was completely biased against her.

[hippiechick19]

no, she didn't have 6 fingers. i believe that was made up by her enemies. and i do feel bad for anne. she protected her crown by being cruel (i don't agree with it, however) to katherine and mary and what i think of her is 1 of moving forward and controlling her own destiny.

[UsagiDreams]

Yep, I agree/

[SHANNONTITTEP]

natalie dormer's speech in The Tudors was much more real and compassionate..this was a little hard, but still good.

[R00ckn]

I totally agree! THere was no softness in this actress' speech.

[Destenation94]

A heartbreaking speech....But very true and honest.... "To the Lord i commend my soul" and very good thought with the falling rose....

[emilytodd28]

I feel sorry for any woman who would of had to be intimate with this hideous bloated arse, riddled with disease. I would of rather had my head chopped off than have to be with him. He should of never been king, he didn't deserve to wipe peoples shoes.

[hippiechick19]

he was a good man before his obsession with a male heir consumed him.

[dinastein44]

What a rotten actress!

[CMob09]

Why not say he was bloodthirsty and a tyrant

[Kodanikage]

Because this was a political version mule kick to the nuts. Think about it. Her speech made old Harry boy seem even more the monster because of what he did. Not to mention he would have to live with the quilt for the rest of his life.

[rogkeista]

well she got Henry the psychopath all wrong. A bit like Stockholm Syndrome. A total identification with one's tormentor and enemy. Sad.

[coralarch]

rogkeista, she may have been ironic, but more likely it was because if you spoke ill of the monarch on the scaffold, your family ,suffered loss of property, at the very least. She was safeguarding her daughter Elizabeth and her immediate family by appearing to speak well of Hubby. Besides, he WAS being merciful- he could have burned her at the stake!.

[mverhaagen]

Well above all she was smart.

[coralarch]

She was smart in her wit and in her fashion, but she should have noted how Henry treated his first wife. I certainly wouldn't have married such a creep! Still, she may have married him out of revenge for wrecking her romance with Harry Percy. If she couldn't have her dream man, she may have opted for the crown, and power. Only she could say how she thought.

[ccsand94]

What song is that on 0:50?

[PhillyGal4Ever]

Physically she seems the closest to Anne's portraits.

[YeOldeTune]

I like Dorothy Tutin as Boleyn

[PhillyGal4Ever]

Which film did she act in? Thanks!

[YeOldeTune]

The BBC serial "The six wives of Henry VIII", second chapter "Anne Boleyn"

[PhillyGal4Ever]

Thank you! :)

[xxHistoryGirl23xx]

I love this documentary by Starkey. Thanks for the speech.

[PhillyGal4Ever]

I think I must've seen it a dozen times over the years. I love it.

[Spottedleaf247]

This actress was okay, but i like the actresses in the Other Boleyn Girl and the Tudors A LOT better (for anne)

[ollierat9]

Of all the depictions of Anne Boleyn's last words this for me is the best. From what I have read on the subject it seems to be the closest to reality.

[grobo11]

yeah when henry was a young man he was actually quite active and in good fitness. when he became king thats when he put on a few pounds and needed some sort of mechanism to help lift his fat ass on his horse.

[DuttyGyal718]

where did these clips come from? there are alot of docs on the tudors.

[maxkersh]

Anne Boleyn was beheaded because it was convenient to condemn her as a witch and adultress and remove her. Henry couldn't use the same grounds he did with Catherine of Aragon. That divorce split the country and also had England breaking from the church of Rome. It wasn't about 'cheating' but about the desperation to have a legitimate male heir. Ironically Anne Boleyn gave him the greatest monarch in the world, Elizabeth 1st.

[HisCreationIam]

I watched the movie the other boelyn girl. Is it the same people?

[chocolatchaud17]

it's the same people, but the other boleyn girl is mostly fictional.

[darkangel0808]

Hah.

Mostly. Bascially all of that story is fabricated. Don't rely on it for much. This movie is far, far more accurate. As is Anne of the Thousand days. I would recommend that one, if you still are interested.

[HisCreationIam]

is this a true story?

[AlexandraLara]

oh yeah!

[angelinataylor86]

lol..is it ever!

[grahamcoles1966]

she should of said he was a fat bastard, it would of been more memorable

[DuttyGyal718]

true. woulda made alot of pple feel better. But some say she had those words so not as to jeapordize elizabeth.

:)

[VampireZombieX]

It must feel horrible in the last time, when they know that they'll die in any second. I feel sadness in my heart when I see this, but it is nice to know, so we know how lucky we are, not living like this. {:o{

[Wiler0]

I always feel so sad when you see the past of those who are about to die T_T

[audie83]

I do too. :(

[MostHauntedCharmedG]

I was her for a report I did at school. Great speech!

[adena539]

" GOOD CHRISTIAN PEOPLE, I AM NOT HERE TO PREACH A CERMAIN (SP sorry) I AM HERE TO DIE!

sorry that was really bothering me

[naya4444]

i red abot this in a book its a really cool book called shakespeares secrets

[hollyxmarie]

The Boleyn Inheritance actually went to Lady Rochford, AKA Jane Boleyn. George's Wife.

[bananabubblegum]

she was the bitch that was bribed into saying anne was fucking he broher george - sick bitch

[uniquesongstress]

she got hers later on shewas executed too

[Partyboywithkeg]

She was executed because the fat bastard king henery wasnt man enough to make a boy with her

[DuttyGyal718]

Its interesting that the daughter of "Anne the whore" and "Henry the Lecher" would be the most remarkable rulers of england. :-P

"quoted from Anne of the thousand days.

[bananabubblegum]

well said he was impotent!

[q0tmefeenin]

anne boelyn DID NOT perform treason.

it was all rumors madee by her enemies.

right?

[bananabubblegum]

no not rumours LIES made up to get rid of her

[PinkStrawberry1]

She was excuted because she cheated upon several men and it spread all over the world and Henry VIII heard the news and asked Hans Hobein to excute her. Later after Genry had his two wives, Hans Hobein was excuted because of lying to him.

[littlemisssunnydale]

I was going to delete this however it is so wonderfully inaccurate and tongue in cheek!

It also sounds like something the creator of 'The Tudors' would think up.

[audie83]

With all the shows' inaccuracies it's actually an idea PinkStrawberry should patent and put forward to the producers-Hans Holbein no less as execution lol!

[audie83]

You don't read Tudor history books much do you? Hans Holbein died of the plague or some such disease-he was a court painter. Are you for real or just purposely being ridiculous???

[PinkStrawberry1]

I wouldn't think i'd be lieing cos' my last topic in history (inn scholl), was Henry VIII. If you had came to my schoolm they'd all say what? A 29 year old teacher can't lie.(my teacher is 29)

[bananabubblegum]

good for you but your teacher is incorrect.

[PinkStrawberry1]

Whatever.

[DuttyGyal718]

Wow, are you related to cromwell? This story sounds just as fabricated as the charges brought up against anne.

:-P

[HisCreationIam]

but it was ok for henry to cheat??

[firegoat]

the idea behind it is, if the gy cheats nothing serious will happen (unless he contracts an STD)

however if the woman cheats and gets pregnant...the qestion of who is the father will be a disaster. is the child the hier to the throne or a bastard??

thus for a queen to cheat she is risking the royal line of the country ( the next king is descendant of stable boys...) and thus commits treason to the country

[mocachic03]

can anyone please tell me where this clip comes from so that i may watch the whole thing?

[HarrisXD]

i love starkey x

[christiecamelot]

she talks as if she wasnt just about to die

[laurenlfc48]

it is very well known that she was very bold and brave beofre beig killed.

[bornasnoob]

im studying him now and i know alot lot mopre than i did 3 weeks ago!

[momentcold]

Henry wasn't fat and ugly when he took mary as a mistress, and Queen Anne as his wife. He started to look old and ugly after the death of his third wife, Jane Seymour.

[fanvideonation]

Exactly it is thought that he "Let himself go" out of grief for the death of Jane who had finaly gave him the son he so wanted.

[mculver7]

Henry started to gain weight as a result of a jousting injury that inhibited him from continuing to be as active as he had been previously.

[Stephenboi77]

I must admit I love the comments on this page, but back in the 16th century, this was common practice. Henry was named The most beautiful prince of Christiandom in his younger years, but yes as he got older he got fat, and had a open wound on his leg that smelled of rotted meat. He was the King Of England, and therefor revered, and respected, even though what he said and did could be considered childish.

[kinkyale21]

omg the real Henry guy was fat and ugly eww how the hell did Mary Boleyn have sex with him in the movie that is coming out with Scarlett Johansson Eric Bana and Natalie Portman make it seem like he was so attractive because Eric Bana made him look hot!!

[WeLikeJemSweaters]

Anne Boleyn, not Mary Boleyn

[emlove143]

actually, both of them did. mary was his mistress before anne was his queen.

[LilCreighton64]

very true.

[q0tmefeenin]

mary was a prostitute.

[laurenlfc48]

no she wasn't people just called her one as she was the kings mistress when he had a wife.

[audie83]

Technically-if she accepted money and other gifts from him-that made her a prostitute. At least in my book.

[laurenlfc48]

True but she was more or less forced against her will to be the kings mistress.

She didn't wish to be.

[audie83]

This is true also-I stand corrected. Mary Boleyn I believe if I remember my history actually ended up inheriting the Boleyn estate-she was the last of them I think?? I'm happy for her if this is true-after her jerk father disowned her.

[YeOldeTune]

No. A prostitute is and was a woman that sells sex to get a life.

[audie83]

People prostitute themselves for different reasons-some for money for drugs, food, etc. Some runaways who turned to prostitution were from wealthy families. It is for different reasons imo. Others runaway from bad homes-rich or poor-and end up on the streets. Others peddle themselves through escort services-sometimes housewives have done this also. I am going from what I have read and seen on programs on the subject but everyone has different opinions.

[littlemisssunnydale]

Anne as a prostitute? Anne was not even a mistress in that she did not sleep with Henry throughout the duration of their relationship, let alone a courtesan.

[audie83]

I would not personally consider Anne a prostitute. But can you blame Queen Katherine of Aragon for calling her 'the most scandalous woman in Christendom' if she did not call her worse? People called her a whore, etc. A relationship with a married man invites such derogatory terms. I certainly consider her Henry's mistress. I believe she slept with him and I consider her a courtesan. She got pregnant before their bigamous marriage. Henry was not divorced from Katherine when he got Anne pregnant.

[littlemisssunnydale]

I think to resort to the term 'whore' is to descend to the level of Anne's biased critics like Chapuys, or writers who later had an agenda like Sander. A whore is someone who profits by selling their body. Anne deliberately avoided sexual intercourse prior to marriage. Her marriage to Henry came after many years together and although in the eyes of many it was bigamous, it can also be seen as the final act of commitment between each other.According to the account of Hall, Anne and Henry had

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[littlemisssunnydale]

entered a form of marriage service in Nov 1532 (therefore prior to her pregnancy). Starkey also argues that they married first before sleeping together which makes sense when we consider Anne's stand on the matter.

I suppose the crux of the matter is did Anne sleep with Henry for personal gain (i.e. wealth). Yet Anne wasn't sleeping with Henry throughout most of their relationship. I think the case was that Henry spotted Anne, wished to have a relationship with her, Anne knowing that the

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[littlemisssunnydale]

position was one which guaranteed no security or respect, declined. Henry proposed marriage, and the two built upon that. But it was not a relationship based on one partner paying the other to be with him. It was throughout the divorce years a partnership, where both worked hard for what they wanted -- a marriage and to have their children be seen as legitimate.

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[littlemisssunnydale]

It is understandable why Katherine, who was pushed aside by Henry, saw Anne as the other woman and a 'whore'. But that is because she had emotive ties in the matter. We don't; we are not personally affected by Anne, we are not the alleged wronged wife in that situation. And so it makes little sense to use insults in labelling her.

[Rayarena]

@littlemisssunnydale Katherine saw her as the "other woman" and a "whore," because she was LITERALLY the other woman. She was a paramour who was having an extramarital affair with Catherine's husband. That is the definition of another woman. And by the standards of 16th century England she was a "whore."

[zrtproductions]

who is this actress? sorry to change topic

[worldofcomedy]

HELLO! they had a daughter called Elizabeth Queen for 40+ years the best monarch england has ever known. how can you say they didnt sleep together. she was not a slag you are right in saying that she was beheaded becasuse henry wanted another wife.

[momentcold]

Henry wasn't fat and ugly when he took mary as a mistress, and Queen Anne as his wife. He started to look old and ugly after the death of his third wife, Jane Seymour.

[0272151141]

if you study him you will notice that he was a very very handsome man

[0272151141]

if you study him you will notice that he was a very very handsome man

[Cee1912]

I dont think Henry was always fat and extremely ugly..

if you watch the show The Tudors, in interviews with the guy that plays Henry ( who is hotter than eric bana ) he says that this is before the king got fat and ugly lol.

I think he used to be athletic and hansome, and after a while..he just..ew'ed himself LMAO

[dramaqueen7777777]

agreed JRM is HOT!

[Cee1912]

MAJORLY!!!!!!!!!!!! LOL!

[vihervirveli]

Henry was originally attractive, but after he had an accident falling off a horse (depicted in the tudors, also), he developed a condition. Historians have guessed what would be the reason for the tyranny of his late years, but nothing conclusive has been detected.

[RLviddy]

Anne's speech is one of history's most famous examples of irony. Of course Anne couldn't speak of anything that would endanger her daughter or relatives--Henry was a murdering nutjob. But that's what happens when you have a leader who gets to do whatever the hell he wants, coughBushcough.

[miahsons1]

nice go henry!!!!! suckers

henry is better than anyone

[BRUTUALTRUTH]

Poor Anne. Brave little girl who stood up against a fat slahghtering evil piece of scum.

[AndromedaMariaCarmen]

Aragon, Boleyn, and Cleves were the bravest of his wives.

[justlooking213]

I think Geneviève Bujold woud have nailed this too bad they didnt include it in the movie