This Day In History ~ The Bloggety-Bloggety Blog Version!
May 19, 1563 - Anne Boleyn was executed on charges of adultery and witchcraft (among others) that were all fabricated and false from beginning to end.
Most of the gusto to go through with this heinous way of dispensing with the wife came from King Henry VIII's mistress and next wife, the ambitious Jane Seymour (not to be confused with the actress now!)
As author Agnes Strickland succinctly surmised so very well, "Anne Boleyn's last agonised hours" and Henry VIII's swift remarriage to Jane Seymour "is repulsive enough, but it becomes tenfold more abhorrent when the woman who caused the whole tragedy is loaded with panegyric."
Jane Seymour would get pregnant very soon after replacing Anne Boleyn as Queen - and die from puerperal fever a mere twelve days after giving birth to a precious male heir to the throne. Alas, he was to have a very short-lived reign as king, Edward VI...
One of Jane's two equally overtly-ambitious brothers would marry Henry VIII's widow years later, Catherine Parr...
May the word of the day be panegyric now! *lol*
posted by Luminous (\ô/) Luciano™ @ 4:00 PM
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On top of the sickening mockery of May 19th by the WWE's Kane and creative crew overall, which I blogged about on the Lugubrious Blog
On top of the significance of this date in History - because of Anne Boleyn - and in recent news - because of another innocent executed on this date; Richard Cartwright...
On top of May 19th being the end of the Taurean reign of the zodiac (and I am a Taurus...)
A fellow original blogger (though an Aquarian) had to post this most peculiar short film on his blog... you've guessed it - ON MAY 19TH.
See what it is here
And I am probably not done finding out things about May 19th either...
It certainly is peculiar that Kane is basically a grotesque, exaggerated, overblown distortion of what Richard Cartwright looked like...
Mr. Cartwright's execution was over with around 6:16pm, CST.
It would be interesting to look into the time of death for Anne Boleyn...
No... time now to do so!
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