How does one marry a person and then wrongly condemn them to death? Is one supposed to cry or laugh when informed of their own future execution? Anne Boleyn was wrongly condemned to death and did not cry when informed of her future execution, instead she laughed. It takes a weak and selfish man to make up lies to have someone they love beheaded. Anne Boleyn was unjustly charged with treason and adultery by Henry VIII because of her inability to produce a male heir, her slick tongue, and sexually magnetizing aura.
Anne Boleyn’s inability to produce a male for the English throne not only distressed the king but pushed him to the greater lengths of accusing her of treason and adultery. A lot of men in today’s society are small-minded bigots and one can only imagine a man in the 16th century, especially one who held a title as great as “king.” Poor Anne had to deal with a self-centered, egotistical husband who became distressed with something that wasn’t even in her control, “Anne was obstinate and assertive, it was her inability to bear male heirs that most distressed the king,” (“Six Wives”). It is preposterous that he could think that Anne decided what gender her baby would be when she was pregnant. It is not clearly stated, but it can be insinuated. If women could decide the gender of there soon-to-be child, there probably wouldn’t be as many men as there are today. Petty behavior is expected from mere children, not adults or even a king,“…Henry convinced she could not bear him sons, confided to his advisor Thomas Cromwell that ‘he had made this marriage seduced by her witchcraft,” (“Six Wives) this demonstrates how pathetic and ridiculous Henry really is. Henry’s disaffection toward Anne gradually increased over time; her a...
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.... Anne often spoke her mind, and often dictated what Henry should and shouldn’t do. Although she was greatly disliked, and not attractive she used her body and her sense of style in attempts to win the English people over. Henry used these small everyday household struggles into something bigger, and they ultimately led to her unjust execution.
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Henry VIII did not set a good example in Elizabeth’s early years. Elizabeth was born to King Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn on September 7, 1533. Henry had wanted a son so severely that he had had his previous wives beheaded since they gave him no sons (Eakins). Anne thought that she was expecting a boy, but sure enough, Elizabeth came out. This was somewhat of a disappointment to the King. In May of 1536 (Sparknotes), before Elizabeth was even three years old, Henry had Anne’s head cut off after he – possibly falsely – charged her with incest and adultery. Henry then remarried Jane Seymour who would soon expect a son. Jane died shortly after the birth of Edward VI. Katherine Parr was Elizabeth’s last stepmother as well as Henry’s sixth and final wife. Katherine had an older daughter than Elizabeth – Mary (Eakins). Henry VIII’s health was declining, however.
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Queen Elizabeth’s mother, Anne Boleyn, had a pretty rough time. After “marrying” Queen Elizabeth’s father, Henry VII, she became the queen. Soon after she became pregnant, everyone was preparing for the little prince, Prince Edward, but whenever Anne Boleyn’s due date came she had a little girl, Princess Elizabeth. After many failed attempts at conceiving, the king became angry and started to think of a way to end their marriage. With the help of a few of Anne’s enemies at court, King Henry started an investigation. Anne was eventually arrested on the charges of adultery, incest, and plotting to murder the king. With limited evidence, she was found guilty and sentenced to death by beheading. On May 19th, Anne was privately executed.
He was a human that had emotions, he experienced grief with the multiple miscarriages and deaths of his sons and the betrayals of his wife’s, Anne Boleyn and Katherine Howard. Also the death of Jane Seymour, the only wife to give him a male heir, brought him into a depression. These events changed Henry’s perspective of his own self, that he was without a legal heir, his health was horrendous and he was being betrayed by those closest to him. Lipscomb describes the transformation of Henry from the popular prince to the tyrant king know today. As shown, “the last decade of his reign, Henry VIII had begun to act as a tyrant. The glittering, brilliant monarch of the accession, toppled into old age by betrayal, aggravated into irascibility and suspicion as a result of ill health and corrupted by absolute power, had become a despot”. Henry is not thought of as the good Christian, but Lipscomb writes throughout this book that Henry was very serious about his religious affiliations. Lipscomb portrays Henry VIII as, “a man of strong feeling but little emotional intelligence, willful and obstinate but also fiery and charismatic, intelligent but blinkered, attempting to rule and preserve his honor against his profound sense of duty and heavy responsibility to fulfil his divinely ordained role”. In other words he was an emotional mess that did not know what to do with his feelings, so he bottled them up and south to seek
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