AnneTheQueen

Awesome women, fictional or otherwise: Anne Boleyn [x]
Anne Boleyn was the second wife of Henry VIII of England. She was a Protestant and a played a significant role in Henry’s decision to break with the Catholic church. As a biographer commented: “To us she appears inconsistent—religious yet aggressive, calculating yet emotional, with the light touch of the courtier yet the strong grip of the politician—but is this what she was, or merely what we strain to see through the opacity of the evidence? As for her inner life, short of a miraculous cache of new material, we shall never really know. Yet what does come to us across the centuries is the impression of a person who is strangely appealing to the early twenty-first century: A woman in her own right—taken on her own terms in a man’s world; a woman who mobilised her education, her style and her presence to outweigh the disadvantages of her sex; of only moderate good looks, but taking a court and a king by storm. Perhaps, in the end, it is Thomas Cromwell’s assessment that comes nearest: intelligence, spirit and courage”

Why she is on this list: Anne had such a profound influence on history and has been such a polarising figure, and consequently very mistreated by historians. It wasn’t just that she was the second - most famous - wife of the most famous English monarch and birthed the one of the greatest monarchs in English history. She influenced society in her own right as well. She was incredibly clever and for me personally, she’s probably my favourite historic figure of all time. Not to mention that she got a noble title in her own right was pretty bad ass. Paving the way for women since 1501 etc.

(via queenmorgan-winchester)

10 months ago

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   I love pre-Elizabethan England. :3

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