In the spot recorded as being the resting place of Queen Anne Boleyn, the team found the bones of a female. The Victorian team did not doubt that they had found Anne Boleyn, particularly as they then found the remains of two men close by, believed to have been the Dukes of Somerset and Northumberland, who were recorded as lying between Queens Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard.
The box was buried in the spot where Anne had been found, at four inches below the surface, and the earth was filled in before a layer of concrete was spread over the top.
Floral tributes from visitors to the Tower are also laid on the tile and the glass memorial on Tower Green which remembers all those executed within the Tower walls. Here jewelled names were broken from the vivid thread of life.
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When did Anne Boleyn die? An illustration depicting Anne Boleyn raising her arms in despair upon being sentenced to death for high treason. Catherine had not. But Anne refused to be his mistress and held out for marriage. First, he argued to Pope Clement VII that his marriage to Catherine could be annulled because she had been married to his brother Arthur, who died shortly after their marriage.
Therefore, Henry claimed, the Pope who granted the marriage had been wrong do so in the first place. The king and Anne Boleyn were secretly married in January , causing Henry and the Archbishop of Canterbury at the time, Thomas Cranmer, to be excommunicated from the Catholic church. This in turn led to the establishment of the Church of England, a major step in the Reformation that added England to the list of Protestant nations. Thomas Cromwell. In , she bore a female child, who would grow up to be Queen Elizabeth I.
But Anne suffered miscarriages and her only male child was stillborn in January At that point, Henry decided to make a change. Historians speculate that her father probably tried to warn her of the situation.
Boleyn did bear him a daughter, who became Elizabeth I. Borman is joint chief curator for Historic Royal Palaces, the charity that manages the Tower of London, among other sites. She will include the discovery in her forthcoming Channel 5 series, The Fall of Anne Boleyn , which begins in December. She had visited the National Archives to study the Anne Boleyn trial papers when archivist Sean Cunningham, a Tudor expert, drew her attention to a passage he had discovered in a warrant book.
Borman argues that, despite the coldness of the instructions, the fact Henry spared Boleyn from being burned — a slow, agonising death — was a real kindness by the standards of the day. More recent research has proved that… it was moved to opposite what is today the Waterloo Block, home of the crown jewels.
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