I don't know how I missed seeing this movie because I'm such a history buff. I'm so glad I found it on youtube and thank you so much for uploading it!! Luv 2 U Jackie
Biggest irony about Henry VIII was after years of trying to produce a male heir, his glorious successor was his daughter Elizabeth. If he'd have seen what she achieved when she was Queen, I'm sure that he would have been proud of her!
When Elizabeth said ' I want my mummy' I couldn't hold back the tears she's so young and doesn't understand all she wants is her mummy and it's so heart breaking knowing she won't ever see her mummy again
Well...at least Anne got a professional swordsman who knew what he was doing, and not Farmer Potatoes from down the road who volunteered for the job- because that's what the common folk usually got.
Henry was not out hunting on the day of Anne's execution or the weeks leading up to it. He was hidden away in a country house with the gates locked and only his few closest councilors allowed in. This was to prevent anyone pleading on Anne's behalf. He remained locked up there until after Anne was executed, only going to Jane Seymour the next day.
Does someone know where I can watch episode 2 of this movie? I've been searching for three hours on the internet and still can't find it without having to enter my credit card number. And I want to see the rest of this movie so much now!
A mob didn't shout at her at her execution. She gave her speech to a fairly quiet crowd, and by the end people were so moved many were reduced to tears.
There were about 1000 witnesses to her execution. The public were allowed in. The King didn't want there to be any secrecy. He wanted it to appear that Anne had open justice. At her trial there were 2000 people squeezed in.
@@gidzmobug2323 Yes I know that, but some were able to sneak in the night before and stay with friends living within the Tower complex. They got to witness the execution and wrote about it.
She was beheaded in a more private setting, like other nobles, on Tower Green. There were witnesses, but certainly not the angry crowd of commoners like this.
I have watched Ray Winstone, from Carling in SCUM, to a small part in QUADRAPHENIA. And now he portrays our greatest monarch, with an outstanding performance.
I'm starting to think just about every major English actress - with a few Americans thrown in - seems to get a shot at playing Ann Boleyn as though it were a professional rite of passage. 15 years earlier, Bonham Carter also played Lady Jane Grey, another Tudor era figure who fell to an executioner's axe. Frankly, I don't know what it is about that particular period that makes actors so enamored of re-enacting it and audiences so compelled to keep watching it re-enacted. There are a lot of other parts to British history just as crazy and blood soaked, but we keep getting the damn Tudors.
.......T_T i feel so bad after this... this is second time i see Helene die like this (in film) the first one was ''Lady Jane'' and now HendryVIII... oh god im crying T_T
The proposal 0:21 let’s face it if Henry the 8 had given Anne Boleyn a proposal like that I think she would have deffo choose that then death what do you guys think in your opinion it would have been interesting had both Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard got their annulment from Henry the 8 and were sent away I wonder what would have happened to them after the annulment as the years progressed and everything that would be interesting
@beatrixcarter11 Yes, but Henry didn't want to. At that time he was ready to be done with her and move onto Jane Seymour, who did give him actually son. And Anne's marriage to Henry was annulled before her execution, which leads to the question if she was never married to him, how could she adulter? But of course Henry wanted her gone so he ignored it.
@@juanitarichards1074 Henry was also a bigamist for four months. He married Anne in January 1533, but his marriage to Catherine of Aragon was not annulled until May.
Haha. Since physical deformities were generally interpreted as a sign of evil, it is unlikely that Anne Boleyn would have gained Henry's romantic attention had she had any. Anne Boleyn was described by contemporaries as intelligent and gifted in musical arts and scholarly pursuits. Nicholas Sander, a Roman Catholic born 1530, was committed to deposing Elizabeth I and re-establishing Roman Catholicism in England was the first to write that Anne had six fingers on her right hand.
She was also reported by her enemies to have had a large goitre on her neck, but we can see from her portraits that she did not. They dug her up and examined her skeleton and she had no deformities of any kind.
there is a lot wrong with this death act, however nicely done. The daughter and sister where not there, Further, Anne was given a Royal death, which was by invite only. The common people did not see it. There was no chanting of crowds. To be pickier Anne was dressed in the regalia of a Royal, with furs and high fashion of her day but in the English style, She had preferred French in life. She was led out from the palace gates not the prison gates to meet her end.
This is so not what happened! Anne was allowed only her own ladies just before her execution. After she was arrested, she never saw Elizabeth again sadly. The public were allowed at her execution but it wasn't a baying crowd, eye witnesses say it was a quiet (it was the very first execution of an English queen and shocked the people of London) crowd. When Anne made her speech, people started to kneel, the only ones who didn't were Cromwell, Brandon and Henry Fitzroy. And her head was not held up by the executioner, her head and body remained on the scaffold until they could find a suitable "coffin" for her - an old arrow chest. Anne deserved better than this.
yes ofc, she swore during confession that she was innocent and admitted nothing at the scaffold it is proof when you consider that it was customary to acknowledge your sins before death, anne did no such thing
i really like this movie, but it is so inaccurate. katherine was never with mary when she died, since mary and her were refused by henry to see each other in fear that they would conspire against him and anne and elizabeth were not together on the day of anne's execution
Poor Anne. All for a successor. Anne made the tragic mistake of not producing a living male heir. I think she was pregnant with a son, but she made a mistake when she had a miscarriage or stillbirth. Poor girl.
Hardly her fault, or a mistake. She had no control over the sex of her babies. And these days the medical profession know it is the man who carries the sex of future offspring.
It was not Anne or Katherine's fault that they miscarried, further research has revealed the possibility that Henry had a blood anomaly so the fault was more than possibly on his side. Katherine had 6 miscarriages and Anne 2. After Jane Seymour, Henry never managed to make any of his wives or mistresses pregnant, not for want of trying - except Anne of Cleves - the luckiest of his wives! Both Henry Fitzroy and Edward VI died from tuberculosis and had were not physically strong unlike his daughters Mary and Elizabeth (voted our most popular monarch!)
You'd be better off admiring Margaret of Anjou and her Louise de Savoy, Empress Isabel De Avis (of Portugal, wife of Charles I and Spanish Infanta in her own right) or Catalina D'Medici if you want to focus on woman of that time. Also recommend Isabel De Trastamara (Isabel the Catholic) who is the mother of distinguished Queens Maria of Portugal, Isabel of Aragon and Henry's first wife Katherine of Aragon.
@@alondraperez-ramirez8363 we can admire all those women, but we will not put Anne down. She was a remarkable woman, and has had enough blackening on her name for centuries now. We're not doing that anymore, to any of these women. Anne is and always will be a heroine.
Although Helena is an exetremly good actress the scene is incorrect. Elizabeth and Mary Boleyn were not present at the tower in Anne's last moments. Elizabeth did not learn of how her mother died until she was eight years old when she witnessed her 2nd cousins fate, Katherine Howard.
It wasn't like there was any birth control back then, at least any really reliable. It wasn't just the King, either, nearly every class had this mentality- it was just the way the world worked. Yay social evolution! ~Kat
No, Elizabeth wasn't present in the Tower at any time before Anne died. The last time she saw her daughter would have been at court before her removal to the Tower.
As a rule, English royal children were kept apart from their parents most of the time. Moreover, Elizabeth was only two and a half when Anne was executed, so she probably had no memory of her at all. Catherine of Aragon, being Spanish, was a notable exception. Royal families in Spain were very close, and she had that same relationship with Mary.
Anne's daughter was NOT there. Anne wore grey damask, ermine and an English gable to prove that she was a true English Queen. I am not certain if she was blindfolded. The executioner received her gowns as partial payment. Her gowns never would have fit in the makeshift "casket" arrow box, so she was buried in her chemise and a shroud.
She WAS blindfolded, but yes, her daughter was not there. Why would a two and a half year old girl be forced to witness the execution of her mother? Mary Boleyn was not there, either (a reference to The Other Boleyn Girl), though it is probable that Thomas Boleyn, Anne's father, who was on the council that condemned her, was present.
She also wore a red underskirt, to underline her royal status and as the colour of martyrdom - as did Mary Queen of Scots at her execution. Annes clothing was given to tower officials as their perquisite but later bought back by the king since commoners were not allowed to wear such rich fabrics anyway. The executioner was paid separately by the king via Cromwell. Twenty Three pounds was the cost of his travel and apparel and for carrying out his duty - in todays money it was a few thousand pounds.
The other wife also suffer a miserable and painful death, and Wife number 4 to 6 suffer the same death that the first 3 have : Catherine of Aragon died of cancer (1536) Anne Boleyn beheaded (1536) Jane Seymour died of childbirth (1537) Anne of cleves died of cancer (1557) Catherine Howard beheaded (1542) Catherine parr died of childbirth (1548)
She wasn't. I have not read too much about king henry (but I do know a fair amount) but my thoery is that she was caught hugging her brother and they overreacted claiming it was adultry and incest.
@brandie7654 To me it sounded like she was talking to her lady-in-waiting.. saying sorry if she was ever mean to her.. Mary was a really popular name back then. Don't you think that's what it looks like?
In one book I have by Alison Weir, Anne apparently did express to Margaret Bryan her regret at the way she had treated the kings daughter Mary. But even in that historians book there are some inaccuracies. However 10 days after Anne was executed Margaret Bryan did go to visit Princess Mary so perhaps she did pass this message on.
i agree, although in reality the poor werent there but those who were there i do believe that they realised after he speech she wasnt as bad as they made out, which i take comfort in
Yes she did, but she blamed Anne instead of her father and his decisions to put aside his by now infertile wife, which he was planning to do before he ever set eyes on Anne Boleyn.
Did The Other Boleyn Girl purposely copy lines almost word for word from this movie, or were those historically documented words that were spoken? Some of the copied lines seem to be things that would have been documented, like Catherine's plea to Henry at her court hearing, but things like what she said to Anne in the hallway just before that seem to be personal words that would not have been documented. Did they really just steal lines from this to make the newer movie?
No they didn't steal lines. They're documented words from an account of Anne's execution. That's why all of Anne's execution speeches are so similar because they're believed to be the words she spoke on the scaffold. They were recorded by a witness by the name of Edward Hall tudorhistory.org/primary/speech.html
Court testimonies of what Catherine said in her annulment trial, and Anne's last words are factual, even if Anne's execution gown isn't...for either movie. However, they both had Catherine telling Anne that she would not go away, she would never give up her title and never deny her daughter the right to be called princess. I can't find that altercation anywhere other than in these two movies, so I too wondered about The Other Boleyn Girl borrowing lines from this movie. Ditto with Catherine wearing a hair shirt as part of her need to show suffering to bear a son. I've never heard a single documentary mention either incident, nor have I seen it any history books. Either they have info no one else has, or they borrowed some scenes for effect.
Neither that movie or this series is historically accurate. Henry never saw Annes sister Mary again after he dumped her, except with her husband at court. It is not known whether either of her children were the kings, given that she was already married when the king began his affair with her. He never visited her in child bed either. Once a mistress became pregnant he dumped them smartly, since sex was not allowed during pregnancy, a pregnant mistress was no use to him. And Henry was unfaithful to Katherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn while they were pregnant.
I don't wish to appear morbid but decapitation is not an instant death. It has been recorded that sometimes it can take up to 30 seconds to lose consciousness. You might not feel the blade but it's likely you'll feel the impact of your head as it hits the ground. Sleep tight :)
Yes plus the fcat that before she went to be executed she was sent to confession by the priest. Back then if you had committed a crime than the worse punishment would be not to admit it before your death, then you would live in endless punishment, Hell. Anne did not admit to anything, this is evidence that she did not commit the crime, this is why the priest falls on his knees when she is killed as he knows it is murder.
gosh as soon as she was seeing her daughter for the last time i was crying :( its so sad,to have to leave her daughter so young*cries*Helena dies in to many movies cuz this,Sweeney Todd,Harry Poter,Frankenstein..i guess Corpse Bride..but that was the whole plot..she dead when you meet her.
You mean other than the fact that Elizabeth was never with Anne in the Tower? Or the fact that it was a private execution and therefore no angry mob was present at her execution? Or that she wore ermine? Or that Henry never asked of her last words or confession? Or that Elizabeth was already stripped of her title of princess and declared a bastard by Henry, so this speech between Henry and Cranmer is both ridiculous and redundant? Or that Anne insisted that her confession be made public so Cranmer's need to tell Henry he couldn't break the seal of confession is pretty laughable. Accounts of what occurred were extensively recorded by both the Spanish and English courts. We know we can take what Cromwell and Chapuy wrote/said with a grain of salt since they both had dogs in this fight and were both biased. But Hollywood keeps feeling the need to embellish a story that needs no embellishments and we are ending up with a society who thinks Hollywood portrayals are historical facts. They aren't. And while this portrayal is entertaining it is in fact deeply and historically flawed. That's not even up for debate.
I agree that it's flawed, i also agree english history is less flawed and much more tied in with the events, but i do enjoy lower quality films i can see for free and appreciate that this was made, WHEREVER it was made. Doesn't look like hollywood, but I hope no1 is being offended, these do provide good tokens for actors who want to get recognized and earn money this way, england provides amazing actors and i love the lead in this from the animated beowulf and he plays a good douch-king that means well. Its great insite to have if sm1 ever finds themselves in a similar position. Plus plays and films are always fun if everyone is really into it at least. Lol
Anne had a thousand spectators at her execution. The king wanted it to appear as open justice, and for justice to be seen to be done. There were 2000 spectators at her trial.
It was a great movie but vastly historically inaccurate. She never fell in love with her husband and she refused to crown him, so his furious mother took him away to punish her so that they could not sleep together to produce heirs - which as queen she was expected to do. When they were held separately in The Tower her husband asked that they be allowed to spend time together before they died but she refused, saying that it would only make their final parting harder. She had never wanted to marry him in the first place and had to be beaten into submission by her mother before she agreed to it. The marriage was only about the greed and ambitions of both sets of parents. They didn't live together long enough as husband and wife for love to develop, as it sometimes did with arranged marriages.
In reality the king was not hunting when Anne was executed. In the days leading up to and for days afterwards he was hidden away behind locked gates so that nobody could get in to plead for Anne or the other condemned.
I just finished Alison Weir's biography on Henry VIII and she insinuated that Anne was most likely pregnant when she was executed. If so, that's the first time I've ever heard that. Has any one else heard anything or read anything to shed light on this matter? Alison Weir usually knows her shit.
I have read that in other writings and if Anne was pregnant they would have hidden this as it was against the law to execute a pregnant woman. However there are a number of inaccuracies in Weirs book, which I have a copy of: "The Lady in the Tower". When one historian gets it wrong and others cite that historian, it ends in many inaccuracies. They ultimate authority is Richard Starkey. He went to Spain to the Allhambra to see original documents around Katherine of Aragons first marriage etc. No other historian had ever been allowed to do so. But by this time the Spanish were less sensitive and willing to allow certain secrets to be uncovered. Starkey found evidence that Katherine of Aragon DID consummate her first marriage with Arthur and that she was encouraged by her Spanish advisors to deny it so that she could marry Henry Vlll and stay in England. If sent home to Spain it would affect all her servants and ladies in waiting too. They all had their agendas and intrigues.
As for the man who was swinging the sword, with a swing like that he couldn't hit anything out of the infield. Please forgive me it's almost baseball season.
While I do think this is a good movie, and the actors are very talented, a lot of it is historically inaccurate. For example, Elizabeth was not present when her mother was executed. She was no where near her mother when the execution took place. I'm guessing the film makers put her (Elizabeth) in this scene to pull at our heart strings. They didn't need to. The fact that she lost her mother at such a young age is heart breaking enough.
100% agree. I don't understand the constant need to make up inaccuracies regarding Henry and Anne for the sake of effect when the actual account is in itself so gripping, heartrending and sensational. They could simply stick with what actually happened and it would be more than dramatic
Henry was such a detestably evil coward. He couldn't even bear to watch the execution? Well, why did he do it, then? History shows that he did show fatherly duty toward Elizabeth and visit her throughout her upbringing, though; 'wonder why he did that? I guess just considering her usefulness to himself . . .
Henry did care about her but she was somewhat neglected in the weeks and months after her mothers execution while Henry was on his honeymoon progress with Jane Seymour. Kings never attended the execution of anyone attainted with treason. The didn't attend funerals either. They never visited the condemned in prison. He sent Elizabeth away into a country house to keep her away from the salacious rumours about her mother. Eventually she was accepted back at court and Henry was very find of her - she was the spitting image of him and very precocious and intelligent. He made sure she got a top class education. He never legitimized her but she and Mary were put back into the succession after Edward and his heirs.....which sadly never came to pass.
HBC was miscast as Anne. Generally, I like her acting but this is perhaps one of her worst performances. So wooden. She was also physically too beautiful for Anne Boleyn who was supposed to be plain but charming. She was the opposite, beautiful but without charm. Well, at least they got her eye color right.
Thanks for uploading such a brilliant movie. Absolutely loved it. 5* all the way and shared with all my Tutor friends. By the way is this a series? ARe there more parts to it with the other wives
It was awful. Was so disappointing where is the rest of it? Really not sure why a movie or a drama series on Henry V111 should just end with the death of Anne Boleyn. This series should've continued right up to the end of his reign and death, as in the Tudors. At least they got it right.
Ohh and incase anyone wants to know an interesting fact haha! When the swords him at the end holds up Anne's head it is not to show she is dead. They would old up the prisoners head as they are still conscience for about 10 seconds after the head is cut off, therefore when Anne's head is held up she can actually see her own body on the floor!
its funny, Anne's daughter Elizabeth when she becomes queen is renowned for 'off with there head' line. maybe she was there? sociological scar of seeing her mother beheaded as a young child. maybe? could be possible, we will never know.
No, she would never have been allowed to go there, though I firmly believe that her opposition to marriage was based not only upon Henry's unfortunate wives, but also how marriage ruined the lives of her half-sister, Mary I, as well as her cousin, Mary Queen of Scots.
She was sent far away from court even before her mothers execution so she never saw it. She did not know for some time that her mother was dead. But when she did find out it had a powerful effect on her. She never married and she said at 8 years old, after Katherine Howards execution, that she would never marry. But she was her fathers daughter. She didn't begin executing people until Catholic plots to assassinate her came to light. She did not try to suppress the Catholics in the beginning of her reign, saying she "did not wish to make windows into mens souls" and that they could have freedom of religion as long as they obeyed her laws.
This version is untrue/Henry never cared she was being beheaded/infact he was playing a racket ball game at the time/He was not coming back on a horse saying goes God help me what have I done!!
He was locked away in a country house so that nobody could get in to plead for Anne and her condemned faction. He only went out by boat secretly at night to visit his new betrothed, Jane.
Did Henry really tried to save her life by annulling the marriage? I think Elizabeth become a bastard by law as soon as he married again to Jane Seymor...
I nearly cried when Elizabeth said, "mommy." That was so sweet and heartbreaking at the same time.
Meet to my heart shattered
I don't know how I missed seeing this movie because I'm such a history buff. I'm so glad I found it on youtube and thank you so much for uploading it!!
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Biggest irony about Henry VIII was after years of trying to produce a male heir, his glorious successor was his daughter Elizabeth. If he'd have seen what she achieved when she was Queen, I'm sure that he would have been proud of her!
When Elizabeth said ' I want my mummy' I couldn't hold back the tears she's so young and doesn't understand all she wants is her mummy and it's so heart breaking knowing she won't ever see her mummy again
Well...at least Anne got a professional swordsman who knew what he was doing, and not Farmer Potatoes from down the road who volunteered for the job- because that's what the common folk usually got.
Unlike poor Margaret Pole and Mary Queen of Scots who were literally hacked to pieces by several blows.
wow when he said "god, help me" i was like 'no way, not after what u have done!!!!
Henry was not out hunting on the day of Anne's execution or the weeks leading up to it. He was hidden away in a country house with the gates locked and only his few closest councilors allowed in. This was to prevent anyone pleading on Anne's behalf. He remained locked up there until after Anne was executed, only going to Jane Seymour the next day.
What a coward Henry was
That scene with anne saying goodbye to her daughter was very well done..
Yes I think it was something along the lines of 'Forgive me Mary, if I was ever angry with your or spoke with a sharp tongue'
Anne Boleyn is my most favourite of Henry VIII wives!😄👍❤️👑👸🤴
thankyou love these movies
omg i bawled my eyeballs out! i LOVED this movie, helena was amazin!
Ah what a shame that the other half wasnt uploaded :(
Yes, still not in 2019.
Her name and story will live and be felt by many.im so glad her daughter became queen and lived a long life as queen. Mary was vicious
Does someone know where I can watch episode 2 of this movie? I've been searching for three hours on the internet and still can't find it without having to enter my credit card number. And I want to see the rest of this movie so much now!
Thank you for posting this.
Where's the second half?
Anne Bolyne = very brave woman, full of guts!!
It's breaks my heart when she said mommy 💔
Quick Question: What year was this film made? If anybody know could they please be kind enough to post it please thank you.
Yes, I agree with you, Henry. God help you because you'll surely need it in your afterlife.
OMG,
I swear I almost started crying when she said goodbye to Elizabeth. Even though I know that it is horribly inaccurate, it still saddens me. =].
Anne was afforded a private execution, so there would not have been a ragtag mob shouting at her.
A mob didn't shout at her at her execution. She gave her speech to a fairly quiet crowd, and by the end people were so moved many were reduced to tears.
Steve Shapiro No. She did not have a private execution. And her final speech is well documented.
There were about 1000 witnesses to her execution. The public were allowed in. The King didn't want there to be any secrecy. He wanted it to appear that Anne had open justice. At her trial there were 2000 people squeezed in.
@@juanitarichards1074 All the foreigners were removed from the Temple on Cromwell's order.
@@gidzmobug2323 Yes I know that, but some were able to sneak in the night before and stay with friends living within the Tower complex. They got to witness the execution and wrote about it.
She was beheaded in a more private setting, like other nobles, on Tower Green. There were witnesses, but certainly not the angry crowd of commoners like this.
I have watched Ray Winstone, from Carling in SCUM, to a small part in QUADRAPHENIA. And now he portrays our greatest monarch, with an outstanding performance.
Greatest?
I'm starting to think just about every major English actress - with a few Americans thrown in - seems to get a shot at playing Ann Boleyn as though it were a professional rite of passage. 15 years earlier, Bonham Carter also played Lady Jane Grey, another Tudor era figure who fell to an executioner's axe. Frankly, I don't know what it is about that particular period that makes actors so enamored of re-enacting it and audiences so compelled to keep watching it re-enacted. There are a lot of other parts to British history just as crazy and blood soaked, but we keep getting the damn Tudors.
Where's the rest of the film? Was really getting in to that :(
Can you put on part 12 please.
.......T_T
i feel so bad after this...
this is second time i see Helene die like this (in film)
the first one was ''Lady Jane'' and now HendryVIII...
oh god im crying T_T
The proposal 0:21 let’s face it if Henry the 8 had given Anne Boleyn a proposal like that I think she would have deffo choose that then death what do you guys think in your opinion it would have been interesting had both Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard got their annulment from Henry the 8 and were sent away I wonder what would have happened to them after the annulment as the years progressed and everything that would be interesting
The marriage was in fact annulled a few days before the execution.
Henry voulait se débarrasser d Anne.Il a tout planifié,rien n aurait pu la sauver.Comment il aurait pu justifier un autre mariage ????
@beatrixcarter11 Yes, but Henry didn't want to. At that time he was ready to be done with her and move onto Jane Seymour, who did give him actually son. And Anne's marriage to Henry was annulled before her execution, which leads to the question if she was never married to him, how could she adulter? But of course Henry wanted her gone so he ignored it.
Exactly, but this was overlooked. Henry wanted rid of her at all costs.
@@juanitarichards1074 Henry was also a bigamist for four months. He married Anne in January 1533, but his marriage to Catherine of Aragon was not annulled until May.
This movie is called Henry VIII but it seems to focus on Anne instead.
Thats because much of it is missing and these episodes focus on his first two marriages.
I love all the work of Helena Bonham Carter but this one is the best! Sad it isn't so famous :(
I have been looking for the second half of this, does neone have a link?
will you upload episode 2.
Haha.
Since physical deformities were generally interpreted as a sign of evil, it is unlikely that Anne Boleyn would have gained Henry's romantic attention had she had any. Anne Boleyn was described by contemporaries as intelligent and gifted in musical arts and scholarly pursuits.
Nicholas Sander, a Roman Catholic born 1530, was committed to deposing Elizabeth I and re-establishing Roman Catholicism in England was the first to write that Anne had six fingers on her right hand.
She was also reported by her enemies to have had a large goitre on her neck, but we can see from her portraits that she did not. They dug her up and examined her skeleton and she had no deformities of any kind.
is there more to this but helena isn't in it?
where's the 2nd half please ?
there is a lot wrong with this death act, however nicely done. The daughter and sister where not there, Further, Anne was given a Royal death, which was by invite only. The common people did not see it. There was no chanting of crowds. To be pickier Anne was dressed in the regalia of a Royal, with furs and high fashion of her day but in the English style, She had preferred French in life. She was led out from the palace gates not the prison gates to meet her end.
This is so not what happened! Anne was allowed only her own ladies just before her execution. After she was arrested, she never saw Elizabeth again sadly. The public were allowed at her execution but it wasn't a baying crowd, eye witnesses say it was a quiet (it was the very first execution of an English queen and shocked the people of London) crowd. When Anne made her speech, people started to kneel, the only ones who didn't were Cromwell, Brandon and Henry Fitzroy. And her head was not held up by the executioner, her head and body remained on the scaffold until they could find a suitable "coffin" for her - an old arrow chest. Anne deserved better than this.
So why is the rest of the movie deleted? You Tube police on duty again?
yes ofc, she swore during confession that she was innocent and admitted nothing at the scaffold it is proof when you consider that it was customary to acknowledge your sins before death, anne did no such thing
She wasn't guilty at all. They were false accusations.
''i want my mummy'' so fucking sad
i really like this movie, but it is so inaccurate. katherine was never with mary when she died, since mary and her were refused by henry to see each other in fear that they would conspire against him and anne and elizabeth were not together on the day of anne's execution
Poor Anne. All for a successor. Anne made the tragic mistake of not producing a living male heir. I think she was pregnant with a son, but she made a mistake when she had a miscarriage or stillbirth. Poor girl.
Hardly her fault, or a mistake. She had no control over the sex of her babies. And these days the medical profession know it is the man who carries the sex of future offspring.
@Estrellakatarinathegreatrussian
Katherine of Aragon had also misscarriges, even more than Anne had
It was not Anne or Katherine's fault that they miscarried, further research has revealed the possibility that Henry had a blood anomaly so the fault was more than possibly on his side. Katherine had 6 miscarriages and Anne 2. After Jane Seymour, Henry never managed to make any of his wives or mistresses pregnant, not for want of trying - except Anne of Cleves - the luckiest of his wives! Both Henry Fitzroy and Edward VI died from tuberculosis and had were not physically strong unlike his daughters Mary and Elizabeth (voted our most popular monarch!)
Where's the rest????
Anne died very bravely...she'll always be my heroine!!!
You'd be better off admiring Margaret of Anjou and her Louise de Savoy, Empress Isabel De Avis (of Portugal, wife of Charles I and Spanish Infanta in her own right) or Catalina D'Medici if you want to focus on woman of that time. Also recommend Isabel De Trastamara (Isabel the Catholic) who is the mother of distinguished Queens Maria of Portugal, Isabel of Aragon and Henry's first wife Katherine of Aragon.
@@alondraperez-ramirez8363 we can admire all those women, but we will not put Anne down. She was a remarkable woman, and has had enough blackening on her name for centuries now. We're not doing that anymore, to any of these women. Anne is and always will be a heroine.
Can you put on ep 2 pls
I can't believe he would ever say this. He cast off his wives easily, in fact, got quite good at it.
Although Helena is an exetremly good actress the scene is incorrect. Elizabeth and Mary Boleyn were not present at the tower in Anne's last moments. Elizabeth did not learn of how her mother died until she was eight years old when she witnessed her 2nd cousins fate, Katherine Howard.
This is so inaccurate Anne did not see Elizabeth when she was arrested.
It is possible--just not recorded.
I know but it's still such a heart breaking scene
It wasn't like there was any birth control back then, at least any really reliable. It wasn't just the King, either, nearly every class had this mentality- it was just the way the world worked.
Yay social evolution!
~Kat
Aww.
That just about put tears in my eyes.
Thats so sad. ):
No, Elizabeth wasn't present in the Tower at any time before Anne died. The last time she saw her daughter would have been at court before her removal to the Tower.
legend has is that ann's decapitated head blinked after being held aloft
That’s very interesting I don’t believe I’ve ever heard the legend before
Henry destroyed Ann when Ann gave birth to the best and most powerful Queen in England, Queen Elizabeth I
Poor Elizabeth. Losing her mother at a young age. It's so sad.
As a rule, English royal children were kept apart from their parents most of the time. Moreover, Elizabeth was only two and a half when Anne was executed, so she probably had no memory of her at all. Catherine of Aragon, being Spanish, was a notable exception. Royal families in Spain were very close, and she had that same relationship with Mary.
Hardly likely Elizabeth saw her mother in the tower like that minutes before she was executed.
Anne's daughter was NOT there. Anne wore grey damask, ermine and an English gable to prove that she was a true English Queen. I am not certain if she was blindfolded. The executioner received her gowns as partial payment. Her gowns never would have fit in the makeshift "casket" arrow box, so she was buried in her chemise and a shroud.
She WAS blindfolded, but yes, her daughter was not there. Why would a two and a half year old girl be forced to witness the execution of her mother? Mary Boleyn was not there, either (a reference to The Other Boleyn Girl), though it is probable that Thomas Boleyn, Anne's father, who was on the council that condemned her, was present.
She also wore a red underskirt, to underline her royal status and as the colour of martyrdom - as did Mary Queen of Scots at her execution. Annes clothing was given to tower officials as their perquisite but later bought back by the king since commoners were not allowed to wear such rich fabrics anyway. The executioner was paid separately by the king via Cromwell. Twenty Three pounds was the cost of his travel and apparel and for carrying out his duty - in todays money it was a few thousand pounds.
This is all wrong, Anne Boleyn was too stylish to be seen in plain clothing, even on her execution she was dressed up to the max.
quite a good version is there anymore parts
How gruesome! That bastard Henry!
The other wife also suffer a miserable and painful death, and
Wife number 4 to 6 suffer the same death that the first 3 have :
Catherine of Aragon died of cancer
(1536)
Anne Boleyn beheaded
(1536)
Jane Seymour died of childbirth
(1537)
Anne of cleves died of cancer
(1557)
Catherine Howard beheaded
(1542)
Catherine parr died of childbirth
(1548)
She wasnt a whore!! She was a real Queen!! Rip Queen Anne 💖
Sweet bloody jesus I feel like throwing up! I'm bawling!!
She wasn't.
I have not read too much about king henry (but I do know a fair amount) but my thoery is that she was caught hugging her brother and they overreacted claiming it was adultry and incest.
@brandie7654 To me it sounded like she was talking to her lady-in-waiting.. saying sorry if she was ever mean to her.. Mary was a really popular name back then. Don't you think that's what it looks like?
In one book I have by Alison Weir, Anne apparently did express to Margaret Bryan her regret at the way she had treated the kings daughter Mary. But even in that historians book there are some inaccuracies. However 10 days after Anne was executed Margaret Bryan did go to visit Princess Mary so perhaps she did pass this message on.
@TheAnnoyingThing1915 -King Henry doesn't know what love is.
i agree, although in reality the poor werent there but those who were there i do believe that they realised after he speech she wasnt as bad as they made out, which i take comfort in
"God help me?" ?!?! He has alot of nerve.
@brandie7654 Sister, most likely. Mary (stepdaughter) hated Anne.
Yes she did, but she blamed Anne instead of her father and his decisions to put aside his by now infertile wife, which he was planning to do before he ever set eyes on Anne Boleyn.
Did The Other Boleyn Girl purposely copy lines almost word for word from this movie, or were those historically documented words that were spoken? Some of the copied lines seem to be things that would have been documented, like Catherine's plea to Henry at her court hearing, but things like what she said to Anne in the hallway just before that seem to be personal words that would not have been documented. Did they really just steal lines from this to make the newer movie?
No they didn't steal lines. They're documented words from an account of Anne's execution. That's why all of Anne's execution speeches are so similar because they're believed to be the words she spoke on the scaffold. They were recorded by a witness by the name of Edward Hall tudorhistory.org/primary/speech.html
Thank you for the information!
Court testimonies of what Catherine said in her annulment trial, and Anne's last words are factual, even if Anne's execution gown isn't...for either movie. However, they both had Catherine telling Anne that she would not go away, she would never give up her title and never deny her daughter the right to be called princess. I can't find that altercation anywhere other than in these two movies, so I too wondered about The Other Boleyn Girl borrowing lines from this movie. Ditto with Catherine wearing a hair shirt as part of her need to show suffering to bear a son. I've never heard a single documentary mention either incident, nor have I seen it any history books. Either they have info no one else has, or they borrowed some scenes for effect.
And others. Many witnesses including a few Spaniards who sneaked in recorded her final words.
Neither that movie or this series is historically accurate. Henry never saw Annes sister Mary again after he dumped her, except with her husband at court. It is not known whether either of her children were the kings, given that she was already married when the king began his affair with her. He never visited her in child bed either. Once a mistress became pregnant he dumped them smartly, since sex was not allowed during pregnancy, a pregnant mistress was no use to him. And Henry was unfaithful to Katherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn while they were pregnant.
I don't wish to appear morbid but decapitation is not an instant death. It has been recorded that sometimes it can take up to 30 seconds to lose consciousness. You might not feel the blade but it's likely you'll feel the impact of your head as it hits the ground. Sleep tight :)
@Estrellakatarinathegreatrussian Talking about Yourself I see.
Yes plus the fcat that before she went to be executed she was sent to confession by the priest. Back then if you had committed a crime than the worse punishment would be not to admit it before your death, then you would live in endless punishment, Hell. Anne did not admit to anything, this is evidence that she did not commit the crime, this is why the priest falls on his knees when she is killed as he knows it is murder.
gosh as soon as she was seeing her daughter for the last time i was crying :( its so sad,to have to leave her daughter so young*cries*Helena dies in to many movies cuz this,Sweeney Todd,Harry Poter,Frankenstein..i guess Corpse Bride..but that was the whole plot..she dead when you meet her.
does anyone has to full series, I believe there were 6 episodes
PART 12 ???
How sick our so called royalty has been throughout history Im certainly not proud of it!
Yes. god save all the queens. I loves all the tudors queens from KAty of aragon to katy parr.
:P
A deeply historically flawed account of life at the court of Henry VIII,I'm afraid!!!
+Beau Corr oh this is flawed? what really happened then?
You mean other than the fact that Elizabeth was never with Anne in the Tower? Or the fact that it was a private execution and therefore no angry mob was present at her execution? Or that she wore ermine? Or that Henry never asked of her last words or confession? Or that Elizabeth was already stripped of her title of princess and declared a bastard by Henry, so this speech between Henry and Cranmer is both ridiculous and redundant? Or that Anne insisted that her confession be made public so Cranmer's need to tell Henry he couldn't break the seal of confession is pretty laughable.
Accounts of what occurred were extensively recorded by both the Spanish and English courts. We know we can take what Cromwell and Chapuy wrote/said with a grain of salt since they both had dogs in this fight and were both biased. But Hollywood keeps feeling the need to embellish a story that needs no embellishments and we are ending up with a society who thinks Hollywood portrayals are historical facts. They aren't. And while this portrayal is entertaining it is in fact deeply and historically flawed. That's not even up for debate.
I agree that it's flawed, i also agree english history is less flawed and much more tied in with the events, but i do enjoy lower quality films i can see for free and appreciate that this was made, WHEREVER it was made. Doesn't look like hollywood, but I hope no1 is being offended, these do provide good tokens for actors who want to get recognized and earn money this way, england provides amazing actors and i love the lead in this from the animated beowulf and he plays a good douch-king that means well. Its great insite to have if sm1 ever finds themselves in a similar position. Plus plays and films are always fun if everyone is really into it at least. Lol
Only idiots accept Hollywood movies as historical fact. That said, this is not a Hollywood movie.
Anne had a thousand spectators at her execution. The king wanted it to appear as open justice, and for justice to be seen to be done. There were 2000 spectators at her trial.
so much like the part she played in lady jane which also had joss ackland in it.
It was a great movie but vastly historically inaccurate. She never fell in love with her husband and she refused to crown him, so his furious mother took him away to punish her so that they could not sleep together to produce heirs - which as queen she was expected to do. When they were held separately in The Tower her husband asked that they be allowed to spend time together before they died but she refused, saying that it would only make their final parting harder. She had never wanted to marry him in the first place and had to be beaten into submission by her mother before she agreed to it. The marriage was only about the greed and ambitions of both sets of parents. They didn't live together long enough as husband and wife for love to develop, as it sometimes did with arranged marriages.
In reality the king was not hunting when Anne was executed. In the days leading up to and for days afterwards he was hidden away behind locked gates so that nobody could get in to plead for Anne or the other condemned.
Well where are the other four. Title says....His Six Wives
I just finished Alison Weir's biography on Henry VIII and she insinuated that Anne was most likely pregnant when she was executed. If so, that's the first time I've ever heard that. Has any one else heard anything or read anything to shed light on this matter? Alison Weir usually knows her shit.
I have read that in other writings and if Anne was pregnant they would have hidden this as it was against the law to execute a pregnant woman. However there are a number of inaccuracies in Weirs book, which I have a copy of: "The Lady in the Tower". When one historian gets it wrong and others cite that historian, it ends in many inaccuracies. They ultimate authority is Richard Starkey. He went to Spain to the Allhambra to see original documents around Katherine of Aragons first marriage etc. No other historian had ever been allowed to do so. But by this time the Spanish were less sensitive and willing to allow certain secrets to be uncovered. Starkey found evidence that Katherine of Aragon DID consummate her first marriage with Arthur and that she was encouraged by her Spanish advisors to deny it so that she could marry Henry Vlll and stay in England. If sent home to Spain it would affect all her servants and ladies in waiting too. They all had their agendas and intrigues.
Yeah, you really should have made it clear that you weren't planning to upload the whole thing.
As for the man who was swinging the sword, with a swing like that he couldn't hit anything out of the infield. Please forgive me it's almost baseball season.
While I do think this is a good movie, and the actors are very talented, a lot of it is historically inaccurate.
For example, Elizabeth was not present when her mother was executed. She was no where near her mother when the execution took place. I'm guessing the film makers put her (Elizabeth) in this scene to pull at our heart strings.
They didn't need to. The fact that she lost her mother at such a young age is heart breaking enough.
100% agree. I don't understand the constant need to make up inaccuracies regarding Henry and Anne for the sake of effect when the actual account is in itself so gripping, heartrending and sensational. They could simply stick with what actually happened and it would be more than dramatic
Henry was such a detestably evil coward. He couldn't even bear to watch the execution? Well, why did he do it, then? History shows that he did show fatherly duty toward Elizabeth and visit her throughout her upbringing, though; 'wonder why he did that? I guess just considering her usefulness to himself . . .
Henry did care about her but she was somewhat neglected in the weeks and months after her mothers execution while Henry was on his honeymoon progress with Jane Seymour. Kings never attended the execution of anyone attainted with treason. The didn't attend funerals either. They never visited the condemned in prison. He sent Elizabeth away into a country house to keep her away from the salacious rumours about her mother. Eventually she was accepted back at court and Henry was very find of her - she was the spitting image of him and very precocious and intelligent. He made sure she got a top class education. He never legitimized her but she and Mary were put back into the succession after Edward and his heirs.....which sadly never came to pass.
where's the rest of it fucks sake i was right into it
That's not the entire movie.
HBC was miscast as Anne. Generally, I like her acting but this is perhaps one of her worst performances. So wooden. She was also physically too beautiful for Anne Boleyn who was supposed to be plain but charming. She was the opposite, beautiful but without charm. Well, at least they got her eye color right.
Thanks for uploading such a brilliant movie. Absolutely loved it. 5* all the way and shared with all my Tutor friends. By the way is this a series? ARe there more parts to it with the other wives
It was awful. Was so disappointing where is the rest of it? Really not sure why a movie or a drama series on Henry V111 should just end with the death of Anne Boleyn. This series should've continued right up to the end of his reign and death, as in the Tudors. At least they got it right.
Yes but she did win the crowd over with her brave speech, i think everyone who was there understood near the end that she was innocent
Ok... Yeah, Thanks movie directors... I did not need to see Helena's detached head... I love this movie, though. thanks for uploading...
Ohh and incase anyone wants to know an interesting fact haha!
When the swords him at the end holds up Anne's head it is not to show she is dead. They would old up the prisoners head as they are still conscience for about 10 seconds after the head is cut off, therefore when Anne's head is held up she can actually see her own body on the floor!
its funny, Anne's daughter Elizabeth when she becomes queen is renowned for 'off with there head' line. maybe she was there? sociological scar of seeing her mother beheaded as a young child. maybe? could be possible, we will never know.
No, she would never have been allowed to go there, though I firmly believe that her opposition to marriage was based not only upon Henry's unfortunate wives, but also how marriage ruined the lives of her half-sister, Mary I, as well as her cousin, Mary Queen of Scots.
She was sent far away from court even before her mothers execution so she never saw it. She did not know for some time that her mother was dead. But when she did find out it had a powerful effect on her. She never married and she said at 8 years old, after Katherine Howards execution, that she would never marry. But she was her fathers daughter. She didn't begin executing people until Catholic plots to assassinate her came to light. She did not try to suppress the Catholics in the beginning of her reign, saying she "did not wish to make windows into mens souls" and that they could have freedom of religion as long as they obeyed her laws.
Yea - God help Henry VIII.
This version is untrue/Henry never cared she was being beheaded/infact he was playing a racket ball game at the time/He was not coming back on a horse saying goes God help me what have I done!!
He was locked away in a country house so that nobody could get in to plead for Anne and her condemned faction. He only went out by boat secretly at night to visit his new betrothed, Jane.
Did Henry really tried to save her life by annulling the marriage? I think Elizabeth become a bastard by law as soon as he married again to Jane Seymor...
i think its more for entertainment purposes....as they say, its the God father with tights. lol
Henry was the ultimate royal thug and his courtiers his mafia!