The
greatest way to describe Queen Anne Boleyn of England is as British historian
Eric Ives had said: “To us she appears inconsistent—religious yet aggressive,
calculating yet emotional, with the light touch of the courtier yet the strong
grip of the politician—but is this what she was, or merely what we strain to
see through the opacity of the evidence? As for her inner life, short of a
miraculous cache of new material, we shall never really know. Yet what does
come to us across the centuries is the impression of a person who is strangely
appealing to the early twenty-first century: A woman in her own right—taken on
her own terms in a man’s world; a woman who mobilized her education, her style,
and her presence to outweigh the disadvantages of her sex; of only moderate
good looks, but taking a court and a king by storm. Perhaps, in the end, it is
Thomas Cromwell’s assessment that comes nearest: intelligence, spirit, and
courage. "
Anne
Boleyn’s death would cause a legend to live on because she was a woman ahead of
her own time. She was the equal of a King. Anne was beautiful, intelligent,
courageous, driven, elegant, fantastically charming, graceful, independent,
kind-hearted, regal, and strong. She was a true Queen and her daughter Princess
Elizabeth Tudor would go on to become one of England’s most successful monarchs
in history.
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picture of Anne’s daughter Elizabeth as Queen Elizabeth I of England
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