The Fall of Anne Boleyn
Tracy Borman tells the story of the downfall of Henry VIII's second wife, charting her arrest, trial and execution.
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S1 E3 • 11/26/2020
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Historian Tracy Borman reaches May 19, 1536, the day Anne is set to be executed. She discovers astonishing details of the day - of how Anne, despite being found guilty of adultery, incest and treason, still lived in hope that the King would intervene and save her. The penalty for treason was either burning at the stake or being hung, drawn and quartered. Yet King Henry insisted on the French method of beheading by sword. For this he called over an expert swordsman from France - but as Tracy discovers, there is something intriguing about the timeframe.
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See all on TMDBThis mini-series was less entertaining than I had hoped, though perhaps partly because I have read so much and watched so many programs on the subject that there wasn’t a lot of new information for me here. But also they seemed to keep showing the same images over and over, both of people and places. I suppose it is because there weren’t very many contemporary images to choose from, but it made it…