ShortHand: Anne Boleyn – The "Great Whore" Queen

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4.5 • 19.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2026

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Anne Boleyn, the second wife of Henry VIII, changed the course of English history – despite being queen for just 1,000 days before her beheading at the Tower of London. And despite being one of the most infamous and influential figures ever to sit the throne, people still get Anne wrong. This is the Tudor ShortHand.

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0:00.0	Hello. Hello.
0:14.0	Look what a poem.
0:16.3	Kick us off.
0:17.3	Let's do it.
0:18.6	How high, bra.
0:19.9	Is it?
0:25.6	Can we even call it a poem? A rhyme. Some couplets. Actually, it's just six words. Anyway, here in the UK, where we only learn about the Nazis and the Tudors.
0:31.6	Sometimes ancient Egypt.
0:34.6	There is a rhyme drilled into every child on this island.
0:40.2	Divorced, beheaded died.
0:42.1	Divorced, beheaded, survived.
0:44.9	I love the Tudors.
0:47.1	I love the Tudors.
0:48.7	Who's your favorite wife?
0:49.9	Oh, my favorite wife.
0:54.4	Anne's up there.
0:55.9	Amber Lynn's up there, right?
0:57.7	She is a very, very interesting character.
1:00.2	Like, that's a fucking hot take.
1:02.9	But I think when we went to go watch Sixth The Musical,
1:05.8	which I fucking loved,
1:08.4	Anne of Cleves was my favorite.
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