Anne Boleyn by Amberlyn

iBallad to Anne Boleyn

Photos and iMovie: Amberlyn Nelson © 2007
Location: All images from London, May 2007
Music: Dean Gitter
Track: Anne Boleyn
Album: Ghost Ballads (Riverside, RLP 12-636, 1957)


In life, Anne Boleyn was the second wife and queen consort of Henry VIII and mother of Queen Elizabeth I. Henry's divorce from Catherine of Aragon and marriage to Anne was part of the complex beginning of the English Reformation. She is particularly remembered because she was beheaded on charges of adultery and treason on 19th of May in 1536. Since her death it seems her ghost is much traveled, with numerous hauntings attributed to the executed queen.

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[adriana21p]

I love Anne Boleyn!

[TheFreeSpiritX]

I love Anne Boleyn, but theres something about this song that makes me love it xD

[MsLozzyb]

I Love history like if you agree

[RichardMontalban]

@Racheli74 I'm sorry... actually, Thomas West was Mary's great grandson, not, grandson. The Thomas West you are talking about is his father, Anne's husband, who was Catherine's daughter. So Catherine's daughter was Anne and Anne's son was Thomas West, my 8th or 9th great grandfather.... Catherine's grandson, not son. That was my mistake.

[RichardMontalban]

@Racheli74 Thomas West was the 3rd Baron De La War and died in 1618 on his second journey to the American colony. Some believe he died en route, others say he died in Virginia and is buried in Jamestown. He is Mary Boleyn's grandson. He is my ancestor, direct through my mother's family. You're thinking of Thomas West, the 2nd Baron De La War who was the son of William West and Elizabeth Strange.

[Racheli74]

@RichardMontalban .. ummm Catherine had a daughter called Anne who married a man named Thomas West. But he died around 1602.

[RichardMontalban]

@koddaver1 Mary's daughter Catherine Carey had a son, Thomas West who came to Virginia in the United States in 1618. He is my 9th great grandfather on my mother's side of the family. My mother is from America and that side of her family had been there since the first colony in Virginia when West came to America.

[koddaver1]

@RichardMontalban HOW?

[regszikora]

I actually think this song is disrespectful to Queen Anne Boleyn. However it is cute and catchy!!!!!!

[TexasCenaGurl]

@Varney86 OMG Henry got his devorice from Catherine by leaveing the catholice church. Anne WAS he true wife. If you ask me Henry got the poor end of the deal with he had to marry Catherine after his brother died. IF they had real law back then Henry could have gotten his marriage to Catherine annuled and Anne would have been his first real and true wife.

[RichardMontalban]

She is my 11th great aunt. Mary is my 11th great grandmother.

[TheWagbert]

Catherine refused to eat anything that wasn't cooked in her rooms by either one of her attendants or herself. Henry broke with Rome, but it was his son Edward and Archbishop Cranmer who established the first book of Common Prayer and shaped the Anglican religion. By then there was a generation that had never been Catholic at all. Queen Mary burned more people for heresy during her short reign than the Spanish Inquisition did. It could take up to 8 hours for a heretic to die in damp England.