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So let's get right into it. In November 1531, the Venetian

ambassador Ludovico Faglier sent a report to King Charles V, describing an event that,

frankly, sounds like it came straight out of a tutor thriller. He says, more than seven weeks ago, a mob from

seven to eight thousand women of London went out of the town to seize Bolin's daughter, the sweetheart

of the King of England, who was supping at a villa on the river, the king not being with her, and having received notice of

this, she escaped by crossing the river in a boat. The women had intended to kill her,

and amongst the mob were many men disguised as women, nor has any great demonstration been

made about this because it was a thing done by women.

This wasn't just gossip. This was political violence and it targeted a woman many already saw as

England's queen in waiting. So what would drive thousands of women and some men disguised as

women to try to kill Anne Boleyn.

That's what we're going to talk about today.

Today we are talking about the way women saw Anne Boleyn. And specifically this incident, you read about it in

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