S28E11: The Murder of Anne Boleyn
Trashy Divorces
Hemlock Creatives
4.5 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 18 May 2025
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
On May 19, 1536, Anne Boleyn was executed on the Tower Green at the Tower of London, following months of scheming by Henry VIII's chief minister, Thomas Cromwell. Alicia follows the final, pivotal months of the one-time Queen consort of England, the woman Henry had broken with the Catholic Church to wed, and the mother of the future Elizabeth I, from celebrations of the death of Catherine of Aragon in January to the blade of a hired swordsman from Calais in May.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome one, welcome all. My name is Stacy and Alicia, I'm just going to have to hand this over to you, our resident tutor enthusiast. |
| 0:08.6 | I am your resident tutor enthusiast. You're many people's resident tutor enthusiast. Welcome, everyone. It is Alicia here. |
| 0:15.8 | It is a trashy mash up this week and I will say, holy cats and hot dog. |
| 0:22.1 | It all comes together this week, my week of all things, Ann Bolin. |
| 0:27.4 | So many naughty nobles this week in our Trashy Royals, Trashy Divorces combo here. |
| 0:33.3 | All about Henry beheading his second wife. |
| 0:36.7 | This story is my magnum opus. There's no story I love to tell more than this story. Sure. Your biopic of the worst day of Anne Boleyn's life? It is really. It's going to be the worst six months of Anne Boleyn's life. A lot of naughty nobles. Ann Bolin is not a naughty noble in this story, but just about everybody is. |
| 0:55.6 | We have this week on Trashy Royals and Trashy Divorces talked about the love letters of Henry |
| 1:00.1 | the 8th to Anne Boleyn. On Trashy Royals, we followed that up with Anne's birth year controversy, |
| 1:07.6 | 1501 or 1507. We talked about the court of two queens on trashy royals. |
| 1:12.8 | Today, I'm bringing back together the trashy divorces and trashy royals threads for the finale of |
| 1:19.2 | Anne, and it really is her finale. |
| 1:23.0 | Throughout this entire week, we have been building to exactly this moment to commemorate the 489th |
| 1:31.1 | anniversary of Anne Boleyn's death scratched that the murder of Anne Boleyn. |
| 1:37.2 | Indeed. |
| 1:38.0 | Queen of my heart. |
| 1:40.0 | Let us anon to 1536 and find out how it goes down so bad. Oh, good nobles, trash pandas, you know, I'm making no bones about it to say that Ambulin is the queen of my heart. |
| 2:19.0 | We are specifying the lens in this episode to 1536, January to May. |
| 2:25.6 | Just the singular six months and how it really does go very badly for the queen of my heart |
| 2:31.7 | because she's murdered by the king. |
| 2:35.1 | She does not make it out of that six-month span. |
| 2:37.7 | In this year, 2025, May 19th will be the 489th anniversary of her murder. |
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