Whispers of a King: Henry VIII’s Love Letters to Anne Boleyn. Content Warning. AI-Generated.
Eight years before he killed one of his wives, Henry VIII wrote melancholy love letters to her. King Henry VIII wrote a romantic letter to his "mistress" Anne Boleyn - but just three years after they married his head was turned by Jane Seymour One of England's most famous and controversial monarchs, was known for his brash behaviour and for his six marriages.So, perhaps the discovery of love letters he penned to future wife Anne Boleyn did not act as a sign of things to come. It was around eight years later that she was served a death penalty, and was executed under the monarch's ruling.The long and descriptive letter is not dated, but Henry may have written it to Anne in around 1528, according to reports, while he was still married to Catherine, his first wife.He had become infatuated with Anne, and was about to end his marriage to Catherine of Aragon, the longest wife of the six, spanning 20 years.Anne Boleyn was the second wife of King Henry VIII and the mother of Queen Elizabeth I. She played a central role in one of the most transformative periods in English history, as her marriage to Henry led to the English Reformation and England's break from the Roman Catholic Church.Henry and Anne tied the knot 1533. “My mistress and friend: I and my heart put ourselves in your hands, begging you to have them suitors for your good favor, and that your affection for them should not grow less through absence,” Henry VIII writes in one of the letters, which were originally written in French. “For it would be a great pity to increase their sorrow since absence does it sufficiently, and more than ever I could have thought possible reminding us of a point in astronomy, which is, that the longer the days are the farther off is the sun, and yet the more fierce.
