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Wonderful work Thank you ladies 🙏🙏💜💜🏵️🏵️👏🏻💐💐🪬🦋

Thank you Dr. Paranque for your passionate outrage at how Queen Anne was wronged. This interview was so humanizing. You and Natalie are among her greatest modern champions 🙏❤️ I know she is giving you both that knowing National Portrait Gallery smile wherever she is now.

Absolutely loved this chat❤

I'm not too fond of Henry Vii he was an usurper. His propaganda maligned good King Richard. I think he and his mother Margaret Beaufort were involved in murdering the princes in the the tower.

I have been reading Haley Nolan‘s history of Anne Boleyn and she talks about the narcissism of Henry and how that was really the reason for Anne’s fall. Also, Haley Nolan’s theory about Anne Boleyn was that she was a passionate reformist in religion and that was also part of her ultimate failure. I am interested in feedback from other Tudor historians about her book.

I was so lucky to have met Estelle in person in Gloucester in April. She was speaking about her new book on stage then I spoke with her afterwards. Historic__ali 😊 @ellehistory

There are people, and I have always been one, who are overly optimistic about the decency of others. We didn't understood that people can be evil and totally unreasonable. And it's the MOST honest and good people who lack understanding of evil. Our minds deny evil and constantly make excuses for others...until it's too late and we are traumatized by their rampage and schemes. Anne may have been this way. I think she had NO way to expect the monster inside of Henry. And then she was already trapped. And so many scholars mention that she kept hope for mercy until her last day. She was too good to accept that he was an evil monster. A murderer. A psycho.

hmmmmm.......Lady Jessica in Dune

I can’t wait for the book! I am fascinated by this take on Anne and Henry, and applying psychology to the past. It easy to forget they are human. I would love to hear Dr. Paranque on the other wives too. Thanks for a great discussion!

Totally agree about Henry. Inside he was a narcissist with no compunction in turning on anyone who wasn't giving him all he wanted or didn't subscribe to his godlike image of himself. I can't think of any redeeming features.

Didn’t work, sadly 👵🇦🇺

Thank you so much, I loved it. I’ll try to look up Dr Paranque but I haven’t got instagram. Many thanks 🙏🙏👵🇦🇺

I guess I take a middle ground with who to blame for Anne’s downfall. I blame both Henry and Cromwell, and to a lesser degree, the Seymour’s. I do believe Henry wanted to be rid of her by Jan 1536, but I am not 💯 sure he wanted her dead at that point. I think Anne’s threat to Cromwell, who I agree was probably never really her ally, was enough to convince him he had to kill or be killed, and Henry went along with it because he saw the advantage of starting over with a clean slate. That doesn’t absolve either of them… it makes them both monsters and I believe they were. But did Henry want her dead at first? I can’t quite bring myself to believe it. He definitely went ahead with it anyway, knowing she wasn’t guilty of any of the crimes she was accused of. How awful is that? As brutal as he was with Wolsey, More and Fisher, not to mention Katherine and Mary, at least he could argue they actually disobeyed him. Why murder Anne over false changes? Her ‘betrayal’ of not providing sons and their marriage bringing chaos and danger isn’t enough to justify it in the court of public opinion, especially since he loved her so strongly before. But we all know of cases of domestic abuse and once loving husbands murdering their wives, so why couldn’t Henry be equally guilty of that? Regarding Anne and George mocking Henry’s poetry and even more dangerously, his virility… I guess it could be possible, but I think if Henry’s sexual prowess or ability was something Anne might have mentioned, it would be because it caused a problem in her getting pregnant, rather that something she would have mocked. After all, her mocking Henry’s skill would suggest that she possibly slept with someone else whom she could compare him with, and I don’t believe she ever slept with anyone but her husband.

Thank you for this very interesting video....good speaker and interesting content

Claude and Francis are my dna proven great x many grandparents

Wow, this was an amazing lecture. Thank you so much for posting. So interesting.

Outstanding Discussion, Thank You!✨

Dangerous beauty brought me here

How does one get in touch with David Lee for speaking opportunities?

Something I discovered yesterday - I'm directly descended from Elizabeth and Richard Woodville's son, Anthony Woodville - who this episode is about! I'm American, by the way. Sending all my love and support from New Jersey, USA.

I just discovered today that I'm a direct descendant of Jacquetta, through her marriage to Richard Woodville! It's very exciting.

Absolutely fascinating! Perhaps it’s hard for us to imagine how much they travelled back then!!!!! We seem to think they were quite insular and yet they got so far! Wonderful, thank you 🙏🙏🙏👵🇦🇺

Lucky you, visiting the Clos Luce....thank you for sharing 🧡

Scotland were fobbed off with 'replicas' of Mary's embroideries. Our Queen Mary was a master embroiderer, taught by masters in France. The 'replicas' are in Edinburgh Castle and are an insult to Scotland. The originals should be returned to Scotland and the replicas can be offered to England if they want them. Much of these works were made while our queen was imprisoned in the Tower of London. The gall of them to keep these embroideries.

New books to read! Interesting comment that she's been accused of rewriting because she focuses on women's history. As if women weren't present! I'm happy to learn about these women's stories.

What would the royal apartments be like.

Hard to believe such a chaotic and ADHDas he was, his studio would be so neat!😂 Seriously, very cool!

Poor Anne. She was mean to Katherine of Aragon but she did not deserve this😢

A tremendous podcast - many thanks.

Many thanks, really interesting and enjoyable podcast.

Thank you Natalie for introducing Rosamund Gravelle. Someone with lived experience and knowledge of human psychology, so rare, but so essential, in history and cultural studies. 🧡

I would be so interested in that Niddhall portrait.

Fascinating! ❤

Lord Henry Percy (Anne's former love) fainted after adding his own voice to the guilty verdict.

I d like to know more about the origin of the Seymour name ( my maiden names) and the Seymour crest, I’ve seen more than one version of the crest.

The people living in Tower this day have my respect. Can you imagine the ghost who they probably come across.

Calling this a kangaroo Court is an insult to kangaroos.

Thank you for this extremely interesting video. Hoping to go to England next spring for. Tudor tour and would absolutely love to see the recreation of this Boleyn space! ❤

Wasn't the executioner from Calais sent for before Anne's trial actually began? That really puts the remark about Henry VIII being "moved by pity" into context.

Thanks so much for this very informative video about a man who has seemed to be a most admirable person from the little I knew of him. His great interest in books and in Christine de Pisan, among other traits, really makes him a person I would like to have known. Drawing on the Tudor Takeaway, I wish that I could go back in time and change Anthony’s fate!

Very interesting. Can we nowadays recognice, if and when alteration, destructions to the record occurred?

I think this is a fascinating topic. Often, show hosts regurgitate the same old stories without discussing contemporary source documents. When we talk about about the Trial & Execution of Anne Boleyn, many people probably feel like the King said to Cromwell, "Get rid of Anne," and she was arrested & sent to the Tower. It's incredible to hear that so many legal hoops had to be gotten through to officially execute an innocent women and 4 men.

Another wonderful video. I enjoy the deeper looks into the horrific days that led to Queen Anne's execution. The "Bag of Secrets" was something I'd not heard of. Too bad there aren't transcripts from the trial that have been found. I'm glad that we remember Queen Anne every year and pay her respects along her fellow victims.

Dr Emerson is always such an engaging speaker. Given the "deep dive" into the description of the royal apartments, is there enough information available to create a 3D model?

Wonderful work absorbing broadcast, lovely to hear From Dr.Owen as always, Natalie your new Book is a delight thank you both.

Thank you very much. So very interesting. I do remember going there in 2003 with my husband and you both bought it to life so vividly. Many thanks 🙏🙏🙏👵🇦🇺

Many thanks for this interesting broadcast - Dr Emmerson's knowledge and enthusiasm brought the Tower of the 1530's back to life.

Outstanding Discussion, Thank You!✨

Sorry, but please tell us about History.......

This is brilliant, fascinating & so well communicated!