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...telescoping of history heightens its ironies. In a letter to Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII can scarcely contain his urge to make her the "only mistress" of his life: "Whose pretty duckys I trust shortly to kiss." The very next reading is a letter Anne Boleyn sent from the Tower to plead for her life. Then comes a king who does not plead. Peremptorily charged with treason, Charles I stands on his divine rights: "I do not know how a king can be a delinquent." He rebukes his judges with a concept that is still sound after four centuries: "If power...
...Seasons is Sir Thomas More, 16th century wit, lawyer, scholar, author (Utopia), Lord Chancellor of England, and Christian martyr. The King is Henry VIII, who had Sir Thomas beheaded when More-in denying the King's right to divorce Queen Catherine and marry Anne Boleyn-refused to sign an oath proclaiming the King supreme ruler of the church. More did not choose to lose his life; he did choose not to lose his soul...
...answers: Elizabeth was illegitimate in the sense that her father, Henry VIII, had his marriage with her mother, Anne Boleyn, declared invalid; 2) evidence is that Elizabeth was barren; 3) she had fine red-gold hair, and if she wore a wig, it was for reasons of fashion; 4) her relations with nine successive Popes were stormy, but she showed some signs of restraint. In the Prayer Book, designed for worship in the church of which she was the head, Protestant Elizabeth with her own hand struck out the words:"From the Bishop of Rome and his detestable enormities. Good...
Equally notable is the disastrous rendition of the old music hall song Anne Boleyn ("With 'er 'ead tucked underneath 'er arm, She walks the London tower.") The Dunces have arranged the tune beyond recognition, and do not get the words across as well as they might...
...they would Rita Hayworth's, the sovereigns of England could afford to be human without fear of the consequences. Worry over his subjects' approval was fairly far from the mind of King Henry VIII when he divorced his first wife, Catherine of Aragon, in favor of Anne Boleyn. The mistresses and mis-marriages of the first royal Hanovers newly come from Germany were far more scandalous than the prospect that scandalizes churchgoing Britons today; but in those days, royalty operated behind a bulwark of aristocracy that fenced it off safely from the people...