Anne Boleyn

As she maintained her innocence to the end, Anne Boleyn had been accused of adultery and incest. She had been married to King Henry VIII only after he had married Catherine.

The King wanted a male heir and Queen Anne only produced a daughter. She became useless. At her request before her execution, she wanted to be beheaded with a sword instead of an axe.

A fear of the latter led to a swift and decisive end to the Queen. She could only live her life as royalty. But in the eyes of the king, she had been filthy.

Incest and adultery carried heavy weight in their times. Like stones weighing her down, they had been applied to her neck, even as she kept saying she remained guiltless.

When the mindset of justice applied to this case, it would seem that Anne Boleyn had every right to fight.

She just accepted her fate despite the shady circumstances of a capricious king. The irrationality that led to her demise is what glares the most.

There seems to be a disconnect with what royals performed at that time period and what they do now. Instead of assigning executions, they rather do alleged backdoor deals with other governments and make supposed secret pacts with enemies to the US.

Anne Boleyn represented the woman who could conquer the world but soon realized that she had been the one who had been conquered.

If history is kind, it would paint her as an upright lady who caught a bad break, to put it gently. She was a victim of mysticism in the end. King Henry VIII felt that he couldn’t have a male heir possibly because Catherine and Anne were “incapable” of birthing a son.

The king must’ve sensed through witch doctors that he couldn’t get a son and that it was Anne’s fault. Now, the royals have always been accused of incest and infedilty. Tomes have been written, whole volumes scrawled with the ink of the writers who have covered the centuries of rulers in their most insidious natures.

Treason added to Anne’s rap sheet and she took on the role of a woman in dire straits. Even if she didn’t do any of these crimes, especially treason, because the other two are more taboo in today’s world. That is unless you’re in the military and adultery only applies to those in uniform as a punishable offense.

But back to Boleyn. It’s a shame she didn’t have a better barrister or any at all, really. She suffered and anyone who bears her name should feel her sting, even if the woman was named after Mary’s mother.

Anne Boleyn could’ve lived a longer life. She had charisma and character despite her trumped up charges. One thing though…she didn’t fight. She accepted her fate. She even welcomed it.

The blade of the sword sliced through her neck. We joke today about “heads rolling” but they literally did in those times at greater length than today. Some jihadi with a penchant for murder will cut off the head of an “infidel.”

Then, it was almost a sporting event and never mind the Guillotine in France. In England, all they had to do was hire a Frenchman and have him slice off Anne Boleyn's life like one clips fingernails.

So, for Anne to have been set up and cast away like jettisoned junk from a ship, she deserved better. King Henry VIII had met with Pope Clement VII. This sealed the deal with the then witch doctor in chief.

Every movement Anne made had to be in step with the king. One thing she chose to do was wear scarlet so that the blood did not show on her body. At least she had that last choice.