Second wife of Henry VIII and so Queen of England, 1533 to 1536. Though married to Catherine of Aragon, Henry developed a passion for one of her maids of honour, Anne, and so began the whole horrid mess which was the Reformation. the happy couple were married on 25 January 1533 and Anne gave birth to Elizabeth (later Queen) on 9 September that year. It's always said that Anne refused Henry's advances until they were married so the baby must have been almost a month premature. Anyway, Anne failed to produce any more living children, let alone the longed-for boy and Henry's eyes alighted on Jane Seymour. Anne was accused of high treason, adultery, incest and parking on a double yellow line, found guilty and beheaded on Tower Green.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Anne Boleyn
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Anne Boleyn beheaded - 1946
This image comes from the 1946 short documentary film 'Prisoners of the Tower...
Drapers' Hall
Drapers' Hall On this site, once part of the Augustine Priory, Thomas Cromwel...
Queen Elizabeth's Oak
The old tree is presumably gradually being decomposed by beetles and the like...
Tower of London execution site
Catling wrote the poem as well as creating the sculpture. Doesn't that cushio...
Tower of London execution site - c.1910
This image came from Twitter via Londonist, and from the children's clothes m...
Other Subjects
John Derifall
Burnt at the stake in Bow (or possibly Stratford) for his Protestant beliefs.
Guy Fawkes
Born a protestant in York but became a Catholic when his widowed mother married a Catholic. A professional soldier, he fought for Spain but when he realised that Spain would not invade Britain and ...
Section Officer Yolande Elsa Maria Beekman, Croix de Guerre
Yolande Elsa Maria Unternahrer was born on 28 October 1911 at 13 Avenue de la Grande Armée, Paris, France, one of the six children of Swiss nationals Michelangelo Mercurio (1872-1953) and Berthe Ly...
Person, Espionage, Execution, France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland
Ralph Jackson
Burnt at the stake in Bow (or possibly Stratford) for his Protestant beliefs.
Simon Fraser, Lord Lovat
Jacobite. Taken prisoner at the Battle of Culloden. Tried and was the last man to be beheaded on the Tower Hill scaffold. We're sure that made him feel a lot better about it. 2017: The Scotsman re...
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