January 1533: Henry VIII secretly marries a woman who is already pregnant with his child—months before the world finds out. What follows is not a romantic honeymoon, but the culmination of a seven-year siege that separated England from Rome and redrawn the map of Europe.
In this video, we travel back to the winter of 1533 at the English court, to Whitehall Palace with its thousands of inhabitants, its noise, and its intrigues. We show why Anne Boleyn made the king wait seven years, how seventeen of his love letters ended up in the Vatican Library, why her coronation in June 1533 met with open rejection from the people, and how the birth of a "disappointing" girl on September 7, 1533, changed the course of English history forever. For that girl was Elizabeth I.
Based on historically documented facts and figures, beyond the romanticized cinematic version of this story.
Topics in this video:
The secret wedding of January 25, 1533
The price of the separation from Rome: Wolsey, Cranmer, Pope Clement VII
Daily life and power structures at the Whitehall court
The coronation of Anne Boleyn and the public's apathy
The birth of Elizabeth I and the turning point in the relationship
Anne's rapid fall and execution in 1536
#HenryVIII #AnneBoleyn #Tudors #History #EnglishHistory #ElizabethI
Links to historical sources (for those who want to delve deeper into the topic):
Henry VIII (England) – Wikipedia
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinric...)
Anne Boleyn – Wikipedia
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Bo...
Catherine of Aragon – Wikipedia
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathari...
Palace of Whitehall – Wikipedia (English)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palace_...
The National Archives (UK): "Six Wives in the Archives – A View from Europe" – about the love letters of Henry VIII in the Vatican Library (English)
https://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/...
January 1533: Henry VIII secretly marries a woman who is already pregnant with his child—months before the world finds out. What follows is not a romantic honeymoon, but the culmination of a seven-year siege that separated England from Rome and redrawn the map of Europe.
In this video, we travel back to the winter of 1533 at the English court, to Whitehall Palace with its thousands of inhabitants, its noise, and its intrigues. We show why Anne Boleyn made the king wait seven years, how seventeen of his love letters ended up in the Vatican Library, why her coronation in June 1533 met with open rejection from the people, and how the birth of a "disappointing" girl on September 7, 1533, changed the course of English history forever. For that girl was Elizabeth I.
Based on historically documented facts and figures, beyond the romanticized cinematic version of this story.
Topics in this video:
The secret wedding of January 25, 1533
The price of the separation from Rome: Wolsey, Cranmer, Pope Clement VII
Daily life and power structures at the Whitehall court
The coronation of Anne Boleyn and the public's apathy
The birth of Elizabeth I and the turning point in the relationship
Anne's rapid fall and execution in 1536
#HenryVIII #AnneBoleyn #Tudors #History #EnglishHistory #ElizabethI
Links to historical sources (for those who want to delve deeper into the topic):
Henry VIII (England) – Wikipedia
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinric...)
Anne Boleyn – Wikipedia
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Bo...
Catherine of Aragon – Wikipedia
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathari...
Palace of Whitehall – Wikipedia (English)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palace_...
The National Archives (UK): "Six Wives in the Archives – A View from Europe" – about the love letters of Henry VIII in the Vatican Library (English)
https://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/...