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So let's get right into it. Today is May 19. So it is a very

important day in Tudorland, in Tudor history land, because it's the anniversary of the execution

of Anne Boleyn. So we're going to talk today about the execution of Anne, the final hours of

Ann Bollim. All right. So it's May 19th, the Tower of London. It was just after dawn. It was a Friday,

May 19, 1536, and Anne had been awake all night inside the Queen's lodging at the tower

waiting for the end. She had already

dressed. She was wearing a dark gray gown with a red curdle underneath and a cloak trimmed

with ermine. Those who saw her that morning remarked on her composure. Someone even said that they

never saw her more beautiful. Sir William Kingston, who was the constable of the

tower, even he seemed surprised at how steady she was, which he wrote in his letters.

Outside, a scaffold had been built on Tower Green just yards away. The swordsmen, of course,

had been brought from Calais by special order that was seen as like kind of one last mercy

by Henry VIII. He had arrived

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