Queen of a Thousand Days Anne Boleyn

Linwood 2022-04-20 09:01:43

Anne Boleyn's life is a legend: she went from being a maid of the royal family to her final claim to the throne as never before. For her, the United Kingdom broke with the Holy See, and the Protestant power rose in the United Kingdom; for her, the king divorced his 24-year-old wife, Princess Catherine of Spain; for her, the United Kingdom fell into serious internal and external troubles and suffered internal divisions , the huge pressure of external invasion, facing strong public condemnation from the Holy See to the people. What kind of woman can bring such a huge storm to the UK? And why, after only three years as a queen, she was sent to the guillotine by Henry VIII?
It is not difficult to imagine that a woman with such energy must be a woman who combines beauty, wisdom, ambition and skill. Judging from the court portrait, Anne Boleyn is indeed a beautiful woman, with a firm nose, thin lips, and sharp eyes, which clearly show her courage, wisdom and perseverance. However, it was not her who first entered Henry VIII's field of vision, but her younger sister, Mary Boleyn, who was completely different from her sister. Mary Boleyn was a soft and gentle woman. Before Henry VIII met Anne Boleyn, she had been his mistress, and it was rumored that she had given birth to a son for him. However, she could not escape the fate of being abandoned in the end.
Perhaps seeing what happened to her younger sister, Anne Boleyn realized her fate as a mistress, lacking the guarantee of an official identity, and facing the fate of being toyed and abandoned at any time. And Queen Catherine, in 24 years of marriage, failed to give birth to a son for the king, and failed to bring a long-awaited legal male heir to the United Kingdom. Anne Boleyn has more reasons to believe in her opportunity. In the face of the king's love letter and the ardent pursuit of jewelry (it's hard to imagine that in a Chinese feudal court, the emperor would have been lucky enough to be included in the harem), Anne Boleyn did not easily sacrifice her body to become the king's mistress. Instead, in the elusive response, he insisted on his request to become the king's legal wife and the queen of England. And King Henry VIII, perhaps the first time he met such a charming and difficult to get woman, he was deeply tormented by the lust for what he wanted, and he was bitter and troubled by being childless for many years. In 1525, Henry VIII finally started the royal divorce battle. This battle lasted for nearly eight years. He finally spared no expense to put Anne Boleyn on the throne in 1533.
The Other Boleyn Girl, played by Natalie Portman and Mary Boleyn by Scarlett Johansson, brings the court battle to the spotlight between. Sister Anne Boleyn's tricks and scheming are not only reflected in the insatiable appetite of Henry VIII, and desperately seeking the queen's seat, but also in the ruthless trampling on her sister Mary Boleyn. . In the film, Mary Boleyn was the woman Henry VIII fell in love with at first sight, but because of Anne Boleyn's intervention, Henry VIII abandoned Mary Boleyn and their new son.
This film made Anne Boleyn more ambitious, sinister and sinister. In order to achieve her desires, she would not hesitate to play with everyone, even her own sister and brother. At the end of the film, she was abandoned by the king and pushed to the guillotine to be beheaded in public. And my sister, Mary Boleyn, not only forgave her sister for what she had done to her, but she has always tried her best to help her. The kind-hearted sister was finally able to meet the person who truly loved each other. The two stayed away from court disputes and lived a happy life as ordinary people. The film uses a famous court story to express the simple philosophy of life that good and evil are rewarded and obeying fate: those who play tricks will never end well, and those who are kind and humble can live a peaceful and beautiful life.
In real history, the death of Anne Boleyn has always been a mystery: is it the king himself or Henry VIII's chief minister of state, Cromwell? Is there any truth to the accusation that Anne Boleyn committed adultery with 5 people, or is it a shameless slander to get rid of her? Assuming that Anne Boleyn really had an affair with others, is it because of indulgence or because of her political demands? (As shown in the movie, Anne Boleyn tried to cover up the fact that a boy had miscarried by sleeping with her own brother.)
But in any case, I think there is one thing that cannot be doubted, that is King Henry VIII Disappointment and boredom with her: she failed to give birth to the male heir expected by the king, and after many years of marriage, Henry VIII has long lost the original freshness and mysterious sense of undeserved desire. After three years of marriage, the king began to feel deeply regretful and worthless for his single-minded, aggressive, and costly divorce battle, and he could only explain it all by "bewildered by Anne Boleyn's sorcery" .
Judging from the development of a series of situations in the later period, even if the king was not the real messenger, the king did not have any intention to save or maintain Anne Boleyn: he acquiesced to all the accusations and sentences against Anne Boleyn, and he Anne Boleyn married his third queen, Jane Seymour, 11 days after her beheading. Anne Boleyn, Queen of the Thousand Suns, ended her life, but her political influence is far from over. Her daughter Elizabeth, who was born to Henry VIII, finally succeeded the throne after many years of ups and downs, and she is the famous Queen Elizabeth I in history.

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The Other Boleyn Girl quotes

  • Anne Boleyn: What will the King say when he finds out that I cannot bear children?

  • Katherine of Aragon: [to Anne and Mary] I am Katherine, Queen of England, the King's one true wife and mother of the heir to the throne. Beloved of the people, and beloved of a King you have bewitched.