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  • esto me gusta

  • nice vid.

  • beautiful tribute to the second most influential queen consort in England's long history. And that's all I'm going to say, since I don't want to get into arguments on here.

  • @GoddessofCoruscant Thanks. Who's the first most influential queen consort for you?

  • @YeOldeTune Eleanor of Aquitiane. She gave England a huge boost out of the Middle Ages.

  • I like the song :)

    From where do you get all this pics?

  • Searching Internet

  • Long live Queen Anne Boleyn!!!

  • I love the music! May I inquire as to what it is? It would go great on my iPod! :D

  • It's called "Now is the month of maying" a XVI ballad written by Thomas Morley.

  • The Other Boleyn Girl was the most horribile movie ever made on historical events.. I know the book wasnt accurate but my gosh the movie was terribile, just terribile. I cant stand to watch it, once was enough for me.. Btw there is no surving potrait of Anne done during her time.. their all copies of lost "oringals" if they even exist . the only image of Anne that has survived was on the coins in currency .

  • I totally agree with you.

  • 1.33 definitely is an enemy painting. i dont see why they painted her ugly.

  • You mean at the 1:33 seconds painting? I think that was before her execution.

  • She was a good woman, but henry was overwhelmed with the pressure to produce a son. The charges on anne were erroneous. As for Elizabeth I, thats a sad story on its own. Anne was stripped of here title, and the marraige was annulled, leaving Elizabeth I named an illigitamate bastard. Elizabeth woudl have had the throne if Edward hadn't written Mary and Elizabeth out. Which is why Lady Jane Grey was asked to step up.

  • There are some historical accuracies in TOBG although not many. There was alot left out. Catherine of Aragon retired to the country and died of old age. Mary was played out to be ao innocent, whereas she actually was a mistress to the king of france as well as to henry viii. The movie concentrated on Anne as the bad one, although her actions changed the course of english history.

  • The book was amazing. The movie, not so much

  • love it.

  • Again lovely pictures.

    For some strange reason I was watching the constant change of the nose!

    And once again the music fits! The liveliness certainly would fit Queen Anne

  • movie*

  • the other boleyn is the worst henry viii movies i've seen in my entire life. it has too many historic inaccuracies

  • You are right. TOBG is a waste of time.

  • That film is LOOSELY based on Anne and her sister. It has little to do with the historical documentation on both of those famous women.

  • The film was made for enterainment purposes not historical accuracy.

  • yeah, they never even mentioned what had happened to Mary's husband. like oh, he just disappears! she falls in love with the king

  • They never explained what happened to Catherine either!

  • @Sisistheatre, I think it is rare that the directors will focus on the historical correctness of the details. It is usually just a dramatic story they want. In that sense, they are free to make up "their own version" of the lives of these nobles.

  • people u need to see the other boleyngirl it is about anne and her sister

  • But it's totally fictioned.

  • i dont care

    still is a good movie

  • What is this song? I love it- it's very lively, and I love it!

  • "Now is the month of maying" (Thomas Morley)

  • You have to consider the fact that not all these artists had the honour or privillage to paint the queen in person 'face-to-face'. Often, artists would draw her from memory, scripts and books, what people had told them she looked like or even coins or scupltures that portrayed the queen. This is why so many look so unlike each other and no-one can really put a finger on an exact portrait of Anne. Makes it more fascinating this way though ;-)

  • Interesting? It makes me damn near miserable. I would give anything to see what she really looked like. Like an actual photo but there were no cameras then. Dammit.

  • If her remains were dug up, forensic science could reconstruct her face. I don't think it would be impossible to see what she looked like in life, but people are generally wary about disturbing the dead.

  • Like Meeting the ancestors

  • You know-I have imagined this very thing!! Not just for Anne, but for Katherine Howard, Lady Jane Grey and her husband Guildford Dudley and many others. I believe it is possible (though time consuming) they would have to extract dna from probably hundreds if not a thousand skulls beneath the chapel of St Peter ad Vincula. Anne's parents' remains would have to be exhumed for dna for comparison to the remains under the chapel-Lady Jane's father is buried near her as well.

  • continued: It would be costly too-and unlikely scenario. But how nice if it could be done. They did it for King Tut I believe a few years ago! :)

  • And the fact that she had many enemy's who would purposely paint her ugly.

  • paralalalaparalalala

  • Do you all think Anne Boleyn's Ghost haunts certain places?Blickling Hall is one,for example.

    I was reading a some articles,and a few people have reported that they have seen her,and at one point,she was actually carrying her head.

    Opinions?

  • definetely. A soldier claimed to have seen an apparition, withought a face walking the courtyard of the Bloody tower. People have actually fainted there. I see you have a knack for the paranormal. ;) I personally enjoy the supernatural more than food! (and I LOVE food) if your'e interested, you should check out my favorite book on the subject: Cotton Mather's a Historie of New England Witchcraft. Besides, Boleyn died unfairly, she was distracted from her prayers as the headsman took his swing.

  • My favorite portrait of Anne is towards the end at 2:19 with the candles. :)

  • I think the person who painted the portriat of her at 00:41 didn't like her much because she look terrible there!!!!

  • I think the portrait at :41 us attractive-it is perhaps the most reproduced, and most well-known image of Anne. The portaits just before and after at :36 and :46 are the rather unfortunate likenesses imo.

  • That is the most popular and supposed to be life like picture of Anne that there is.

    She doesn't look horrible!

  • i think anne was the prettiest of all of henry's wives and u cant really tell egsactly wat they look like cos there are so many differnt pics and they didnt hav camera's in those days but i think anne must hav had striking dark looks and out of all of the actresses who play her i do think natalie portman looks most like her as she does hav a similar shaped face and dark hair and eyes.

  • Yes the reason why there are so many different looks of Anne is because some of the enemies tries to make her look ugly.

  • Holbein's portraits always seem life-like-as close to photographs as was possible at the time. I think he probably captured Anne's image best. I wish her remains were moved next to her daughter Elizabeth's-and I wish Elizabeth's sister Mary I would be moved next to her mother Queen Catherine as had been her wish-both to Westminster as befits Tudor Queens.

  • This is a fine tribute to perhaps the most fascinating-if not the nicest-of Henry's wives. I question whether she WAS his wife while Catherine lived-if Henry married her again after Catherine's death then perhaps yes. I pity her end but she brought it upon herself by interfering in Catherine's marriage. Her surviving letters show her unkindess towards Catherine-and especially to Catherine's daughter Mary.

  • how can you say that she deserved it? no one deserves to be beheaded.

  • I'm in awe on the last portrait of her, never seen it before, so I also looked in the yahoo group for it great picture. You have a couple other pictures I've not seen before either. I loved your representation of Anne. Will try an find the other pictures somehow.

  • she was no natalie portman

  • Haha, you're right, she was no Natalie Portman (very few girls are!) but she certainly looks like the most attractive of Henry VIII's wives, plus she had that charm and wit.

    I know there are fans of Jane Seymour, Anne of Cleves, Katherine Howard and Katherine Parr, but honestly, after Katherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII's taste in wives started deteriorating. The succeeding ones were not nearly as special as the Spanish Katherine and Anne, not in looks or personality.

  • true:D

  • Imo I don't think Anne looks very attractive in her portraits at all-she's different looking maybe. I think Catherine of Aragon looks pretty in her youthful portraits. But it's hard to judge by today's standards. Anne of Cleves seems somewhat attractive but it is said that Holbein flattered a fellow German's looks.

  • the last portrait of anne boleyn in this video before her gravemarker, where does it now lie? what is the date on that? Does anyone know this full figure portrait of her at the end of this video?

  • I found it in a Yahoo Group about Anne.

  • It's at Ludlow Castle lodge.

  • thanks!

  • there is no doubt, most historians agree, she was the victim of a plot, did nothing wrong and was murdered.

    catherine was stubborn, and her marriage was illegal, in her own bible. she laid with arthur, there is little doubt, most historians agree.

  • You havent been to Sunday School have you? Divorce is a sin not marrying your brothers widow That was a cultural belief at the time its not in the Scriptures & by the Scriptures a verse in the same chapter Henry used against Kat his marriage to Anne is also invalid & incestuous & doomed to be childless

  • I refer to the speech anne boleyn made at her "murder".

  • my favourite queen consort

    independant, intelligent, bore the greatest monarch weve had and had the guts to stand up to henry viii the evil man!

    she did not deserve 2 die, she did nothing wrong

  • It had the order of the wives right! LOL!

  • Thats about it! That was not the right hist-fiction novel to turn into a movie. At least I think so.

  • I know. I'd have liked to have seen The Secret Diary of Anne Boleyn made into a movie instead.

  • Quick Question!

    I read "Mademoiselle Boleyn" by Robin Maxwell and in her novel Anne was the younger sister of Mary. She is also protrayed as quiet and a bit stand-off(ish)

    In "The Other Boleyn Girl" by Philippa Gregory Anne is the older sister of Mary. Do you know which one is true. Was Anne the older or younger sister of Mary Boleyn?

  • Anne was the younger sister.

  • Thanks, I thought so!

  • well she probably was the younger but we dont know for sure

  • Anne was the younger sister of Mary Boleyn. "The other Boleyn girl" is a fictional book and not accurated at all.

  • Well I've read up on Anne a lot and Anne was assumed to be the older sister purely because she got the chance to gain an education first, though it is unusual for the younger to marry first. The dates of their births are distorted so you can only assume which is the endest, I believe that Anne was simply due to the chances her father gave her before offering them to mary.

  • Maxwell is more accurate than Gregory

  • Great job!! Anne is my favorite she always has been.

  • You read the other boleyn girl didnt you its fiction most tudor historians agree she was an extraordinary woman & denounced the books distorted version of her She gave Marys son a Princely education She didnt take custody

  • ugh. I hate people that go by TOBG! Judging by people who've flamed me for liking Anne and not liking Aragon, that's what most people go by

  • I was responding to a comment that must have been deleted saying Anne was evil & listed all her "crimes" outlined in TOBG its a fun read but its not history People are entitled to thier Preferences but you are pretty biased against Katherine

  • I'm biased against Katharine, yes, but I don't make my stuff up. I honestly DID think she'd ordered killings of Protestants, but when I was corrected, I shut my mouth about that.

    I still do not like her personality, though- I consider her a doormat, especially when compared to Anne Boleyn or Catherine Parr.

    But I WAS wrong about the persecution thing, and I admit that. She still infuriates me though- too submissive for my tastes.

  • and I didn't mean to say I hate the people who go by TOBG- I hate the fact that a lot of people do but the character limit- grrr

  • If she was a submissive doormat she wouldve agreed to the divorce & not stood her ground If she had sons & if Charles kept the treaty he made with Henry I could see her following her Parents example & attacking any "enemies" of Catholic Faith

  • I always have a hard time deciding which of Henrys Queens are my favorite. Thats like asking a parent who there favorite child is. I

  • Good video!

    I love Anne, she is definately my most favorite wife

  • She is my fave as well.

  • Some of these portraits actually depict the aged Anne. She waited so long to be Henry's wife. If she'd had a healthy son, England would have missed out on her greatest queen, but there would have been more portraits of the lady so perhaps we'd get a better idea of what she actually looked like.

  • that's coz Elizabeth was her relative

  • her relative? her daughter!

  • She looks very much like Elizabeth

  • where can I get this song? it's one of my faves

  • I can send you it via mail. Send me your mail in a private message.

  • Yes, sweet vid, lots of work to find all those. So sad that very few of them were painted from her actually posing, so from all that is said about what she looks like we really don't know.  Must have been something, though.

  • Great women have come & gone but there will never be another Anne Boleyn Not as perfect as some would have us believe, YEESH What Britney Spears is to Chris Crocker, Anne Boleyn is to some of her fans

  • what- you're comparing Anne to BRITNEY?

  • GOODNESS NO Why would i do that! like comparing gold to pyrite I'm comparing the unbridled devotion they can command from thier Admirers Concede to some flaw in Anne & they feak out!

  • I had no idea other people thought so much of this woman! Anne Boleyn was certainly an attractive and intelligent woman (and highly educated for her time), & her hold over HVIII was incredible but she essentially was far too proud and tempestuous and she lost her life because of it

  • Her indomitable will & high ambition are part of her appeal If she had a son she wouldve lived Even if she drove him wakko he wouldnt endanger his sons inheritance by acting against her Karma played a part in her downfall but it was mostly Henrys selfish lust & utter lack of respect for marriage & the office of Queen that saw her undone

  • i agree, but it was also the fact that she had huge rows with him...and that she had a monstrous child (stillborn). Henry was convinced their marriage was a failure and woudn't give him the longed for son so was able to use this for the witchcraft charge

  • was May Anne's fave month or did you just choose it because it was when she was killed in?

  • I like the song, that was all. By the way, Antonia Fraser suggest that Anne could have been born on May.

  • in Anne of the Thousand Days, her fave month was May. My fave month has come to be May. For me, good things always happen to me in May, so that's why it's my fave month :)

  • Anne Boleyn is not the best wife I've read about Tudor Histor, I'd prefer Catherine of Aragon myself.

  • They should make a movie about her from just before she marries Arthur to just before Henry falls for Anne, She'd underated but Im with the majority on this Anne is the most attractive & fascinating out of the 6

  • I totally agree, she was such a marvelous woman.

  • yeah me too i like catherien better

  • who else do you like besides aragon?

  • marie antoinette catherine d'medici mary queen of scots grand dutchess anastacia etc.

  • Anastacia! What a sad story! Did you read about them thinking they found her body? I like Marie Antoinette too.

  • yeah anastacia is a sad story but we no the truth now coz they found her body

  • um yah, actually the missing body was her sister's Marie. No offense, but everybody knows that

  • Good Video with pictures! And just as a response to ost its in Russia the scientists believe it was Marie's body, American Scientists were sure it was Anastasia's body missing.

  • oh ok- I always wondered how the whole Anastasia disney thing got started ;)

    PS- sorry if my earlier comment sounded rude!

  • it ok :D

  • well actually it could have been either's body(it was hard to tell as they were a similar age) aand they have found all the bodies now the missing ones were quite nearby

  • I'm so glad this video hasn't been spammed with nasty comments about Anne Boleyn like the Katharine of Aragon, Jane Seymour and Anne of Cleves videos have been

  • i did sumthin like this.

  • You didn't pick Greensleeves?

  • Because I wanted something different.

  • may is my fave month too :)

  • december is mine

  • Anne was always one of my favourite wives of Henry. I think in many ways she was an ambitious young women who was happily used as a pawn in her families ruthless games never fully understanding the implications. I enjoyed TOBG immensely but I realie it is a work of fiction. However I do think Anne was calculating in a way and endevered to secure her position.

  • What is the title of this song and who sings it? Thanks so much!!

  • The song is "Now is the month of maying" written by Thomas Morley and performed by The King's Singers.

  • I'm sorry to say that I cannot stand her. What goes around comes around. She should've known that.

  • nice to say about the mother of one of Englands greatest rulers

  • I know people who hate Elizabeth I.

  • The song is "Now is the month of maying" written by Thomas Morley and performed by The King's Singers.

  • I already read that book, OMG you guys need to read "The Other Boleyn Girl"..it's narrated by Mary Boleyn and her relationship with Henry xiii

  • Hail Queen Anne

  • You guys should see the T.V series "The tudors" it's awesome..

  • I live in New Zealand so it doesn't play here, it would be cool if some1 put it on Youtube though

  • Oh yeah, I saw that. It has a few inaccuracies but it's pretty cool

  • I think Henry still loved her! You guys should read the book "The other Boleyn Girl" it's about her sister but shows how Ann was from others point of view!

  • I've read that book along with: The secret diary of Anne Boleyn and The six wives of Henry VIII

  • this book was so ridiculous.

    anne was absolutely nothing like the anne in TOBG

  • And which book would that be that tis ridiculous?

  • The Other Boleyn Girl

  • Thats strange because your referring TOBG against TOBG (Other words The Other Boleyn Girl against The Other Boleyn Girl)

  • I think it's cruel that she was put her in a box and her head was put on her chest since the box was to small.

    I think deep down somewhere Henry still loved her, but didn't show it.

  • Yes, she was put in an arrow box, no coffin was provided. Real sad.

  • By the way beautiful images, there absolutely stunning.

    Awesome slide!

  • Anne Boleyn is my favorite of the wives! What a great video! She looks actually looks rather pretty too.

  • She's my favourite as well. Glad you enjoyed it.

  • I've never seen the one at 45 seconds- where did you get it?

  • I found it searching images in the Net, can't recall exactly where.

  • Thank you for this video. Anne Boleyn is one of my favourite persons from Tudor history. It was wonderful seeing a collection of portraits of her like this.

  • Thanks. I'm glad you liked the video.

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