When she HAD to get a boy as heir and then she seduced her own brother! Damn.
shareWell, in the movie Anne and George didn't go through with the incest. Historically, the charges of incest against Queen Anne and her brother were the most false (not to say that she was at all unfaithful or practiced witchcraft)
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They never did, but I felt so bad for George the most who never wanted to have sex with her in the first place! He shouldn't have been beheaded? When I saw him crying all the way to his death, I wanted to save him! I thought that was a disturbing scene and not right! When Anne got beheaded, I had to close my eyes! Damn.. sad movie! Feel sorry for Mary left without a sister and a brother all because of King Henry's obsession over having sons!! I would not want to be with someone like him! At least the daughter, Elizabeth (next Queen of England) was raised safely by Mary and her new husband at the end.
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She wasn't actually raised like that though... she was named a bastard and was most certainly not raised by Mary and her husband. That wouldn't have been allowed. I suppose it's a happy ending in the book, but the actual story isn't quite that happy.
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This was my first time seeing this movie, and I was shocked when he got beheaded cause he was the one who didn't want to go through with it.
The history back then was cruel and harsh. It was painful watching the beheadings.
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Wishin, I'm confused...you were surprised when George Boleyn was executed? You do know that he was a real person right? It makes me sad about the educational system when people think Anne Boleyn is just a character in a movie. I'm also not really sure what you mean about "history" being so cruel and harsh back then. Did u mean life was so cruel and harsh back then?
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Actually, Wishin 10, four innocent men were beheaded in order to implicate Anne, and they were no more guilty than you are. The Lord Mayor of London at the time said about the evidence,"I could see nothing in the proceeding against her, but that they had made occasion to be rid of her." And even the Spanish Ambassadors Chapuys (pronounced Chap-weez), who had hated her for years (blaming her for Katherine's shabby treatment by Henry) said that, "She deserved better."
The family of Francis Weston offered a huge sum if his life were spared, and I'm surprised Henry didn't go for it, since all the Tudors were greedy, but he didn't.
For the record, though, George Boleyn and all of the others actually went to their deaths with great dignity and reserve, as did Anne. He made a brief, pious speech typical of his day, acknowledging general sinfullness but not addressing the charge against him, exhorting onlookers to follow the Gospel instead of just reading it. "Had I done so, I would not stand here today."
Actually, five men - George Boleyn plus 4 more: William Brereton, Henry Noreys (Norris), Francis Weston, and Mark Smeaton. Only Smeaton confessed, and that under torture.
Two other men - Thomas Wyatt and Richard Page - were also arrested but later released.
At least the daughter, Elizabeth (next Queen of England) was raised safely by Mary and her new husband at the end.
No she wasn't. She was raised in various palaces as the Kings daughter..
To me, that is the most absurd scene in this absurd movie - that a woman whose siblings had just been executed as traitors and whose entire family was in disgrace, a woman now married to an almost unknown soldier with a small property in the country, could grab the King's newly bastardized daughter and just march out of the palace.
Henry did a good job ignoring Elizabeth's existence for a while after Anne's execution, to the point where her governess had to write a letter to Cromwell to beg money to replace clothes Elizabeth had quickly grown out of. But no way would he let the child out of his control where she might be used against him!
Henry 8 is a total dick. I am glad his Tudor line ended now
shareI just saw the movie yesterday, and I didn't know Anne had siblings. I felt bad for her brother too, not to mention Mary having to witness her sister being beheaded.
shareI would have thought it was a given, in a time where people married early and didn't use contraception - and had no TV to fill the hours!
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They never did, but I felt so bad for George the most who never wanted to have sex with her in the first place! He shouldn't have been beheaded? When I saw him crying all the way to his death, I wanted to save him! I thought that was a disturbing scene and not right! When Anne got beheaded, I had to close my eyes! Damn.. sad movie! Feel sorry for Mary left without a sister and a brother all because of King Henry's obsession over having sons!! I would not want to be with someone like him! At least the daughter, Elizabeth (next Queen of England) was raised safely by Mary and her new husband at the end.
That never happened in real life.
Just a trumped-up charge to help condemn Anne.
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Elizabeth was NOT the next Queen of England. Her older half-sister, Mary (daughter of Catherine of Aragon) was queen before her. And Mary was preceded by their half-brother, Edward.
Elizabeth was the fifth, and last, Tudor to reign England.
Technically the next queen of England following the reigns of King Henry and King Edward was Henry’s grandniece Jane Grey. But people tend to not count her as much because she was only fifteen and only reign for nine days before Mary took over.
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There were many ridiculous aspects to the movie Abs - it was like they were trying to make it into an easily digestible soap for the young 'uns of today (like that execrable TV series, The Tudors).
For instance, when the "incest" is "witnessed" and reported back on - I mean, how convenient!
Having said that, most of the acting performances were excellent and it was, in the main, watchable.
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Indeed. There is a book about Jane Boleyn (can't remember the title), but the reviews said that it's written in first person, making Jane run around the palace peeking through keyholes and cracked doors constantly in order to witness all the action she wasn't really there for. Ridiculous. You can see why I put the title right out of my mind.
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