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Re: Anne Boleyn: a beheaded pregnant woman?
« Reply #60 on: January 25, 2009, 01:44:32 PM »
I have trouble following your last thought- about Henry wouldn't kill Anne when pregnant because it was against the law, then how did she commit treason when she had not been married as proclaimed the day before her death? I have trouble following that thought, ciuld you explain more.? I'm not sure if Anne and Henry divorced before her death, but I believe from my reading their marriage was declared null and void ( i.e. divorce) before her death, if that's what you are refering to. It's true that executions for pregnant women were always delayed until the child was born, so exceuting a pregnant woman was usually impossible and against the law, but Henry made his own laws, and if he had wanted Anne to be executed pregnant or not, he could have achieved it. Anne wasn't in the last obvious stages of pregnancy, or even he could have done nothing- I doubt however that Anne was pregnant.

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Re: Anne Boleyn: a beheaded pregnant woman?
« Reply #61 on: April 02, 2009, 05:40:09 PM »
I think it unlikely that Anne was pregnant, however Henry seems to have veered completely out of control in his desire to have her dead - which I think is based upon a deep rooted fury because I think he believed the so called "evidence" that she had been unfaithful, (I don't actually believe she ever would have been, I have always thought that Anne was grossly maligned) and it think it was tied up under this "if I can't have her no-one else can".  He may have begun to hate her but hate is an emotion close to love/obsession and there relationship has to be seen as unique;  look at how long she had the power to keep him dangling, look what he did in order to have her, that is a no ordinary relationship controlled by very powerful emotions.

Henry murdered Anne, there is no getting away from the fact.  She had signed the papers to end her marriage to him and have Elizabeth declared a bastard, therefore the logical thought is how could he still have her executed for adultery.  And even in those times it was a shocking event to execute a Queen.  In normal circumstances she would have been banished - perhaps to another court in another country, or more likely to a convent.  But I think if there had been any indication that she was pregnant the execution would not have gone ahead until after any child had been born.  Anne would certainly have played the card to save her life, because quite simply there would always be the possibility that (a) it was a boy and (b) that by the time any pregnancy was over there would in all likelihood be less chance of her being put to death.