Six Wives of Henry VIII - Anne Boleyn

Dorothy Tutin & Keith Michell star in the second episode chronicling the downfall of Anne Boleyn. The play starts (unfortunately) just prior to Anne's last miscarriage, and the majority of the play follows her eventual arrest and ultimate end. Tutin gives a stirling performance as Anne, however the episode itself leans toward Lady Rochford inventing the 'Incest' charge, which is highly unlikely. Please forgive my editing at the end... they portray Anne being beheaded on a block, which irritates me... so i've used the execution scene from 'Jane Seymour' as stragely it has disappeared by then!
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[brandie7654]

I don't know why Anne Boleyn always thought she was queen when her marriage was not lawful and all of Europe.!

[TheBullen1]

@brandie7654 I guess it has a lot to do with her coronation and the fact that she was called Queen for three years.

[GoddessofHyrule]

Anne Boleyn and Elizabeth are my queens.

[nana32231]

terrible acting

[ThePanzerfist44]

Dorothy Tutin looks very much like Natalie Wood did in her thirties , uncanny resemblance.

[LaSofy94]

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...

[FallenAngel2021]

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.

[NicolaWriter]

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.

[ligreekguy]

@ligreekguy

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]

@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.

[Jamestopboy]

@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]

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!