ANNE BOLEYN WEEK 2024
Day 1 ♔ Favorite Fictional Portrayal
AMYJAMES-KELLYinBlood, Sex & Royalty (2022)
incredible that people are still jealous of anne 500+ years after her death
also it’s women’s history month, so maybe we could be a tiny bit more normal about these human beings who actually lived and breathed once upon a time. for fun.
Every year this shit hahahahah sorry!
The Tudors + Christmas
JONATHAN RHYS MEYERS and CLAIRE MCCAULEY as HENRY VIII and PRINCESS ELIZABETH
The Tudors ◆ 3x03 Dissension and Punishment
Claire Foy as Anne Boleyn
in Wolf Hall (2015)
…grumbling the whole way about ’those Boleyns, more prideful than Lucifer by half…’
— Chapter 27 of Nowe Thus
anne gets a lot of shit for her ambition but if someone offered me, as a well-educated, worldly noblewoman living in tudor england, the opportunity to be queen, I think I’d jump at it, too.
♔ It felt so innocent, a childish game, lines of poetry without a name. Waves of paranoia washed upon the page, and soon obsession turned to rage.