It’s horrifying that Anne’s body was pretty much thrown in a discarded box and forgotten.  I wish that Elizabeth I had done something - anything! - to give her mother (as well as her relatives and the other victims of Henry VIII) a dignified re burial.  Elizabeth could have done it quietly to keep controversy to a minimum.  I’m so thankful that Queen Victoria did the right thing.  It was long due.

I find it absolutely ghastly & barbaric, that people would gather around and watch someone get executed.  Ann Boleyns only mistake was she became involved with that Fat Slob Henry the viii.  Your history lessons are absolutely fascinating.

Thanks. We visited Tower Green on a bright day, but I found it a very sad place full of tears and darkness.

Anne Boleyn was a perfect example of being careful what you wish for.

As a HUGE Tudor history nerd, this video was brilliant. I was well chuffed that I knew so many people that were listed in that book that mapped the spots where each was buried. Thank you for the wonderful video.

Anne’s memorial stone does not mark the last resting place of her actual remains, and that she lies beneath Lady Rochford’s memorial.
We were informed of that by a Yeoman Warder last year.

Love your video's! I'm a paraplegic and cannot get out. Your video's expand my world and make my days so much better! Please keep up the great work!

For those who don't know about St Peter ad vincula, ad vincula means in chains (which is very appropriate for a prison). It was on his feast day (1st August) in 1323 Roger Mortimer escaped from the Tower of London by supplying the men guarding him with drugged wine. He had rebelled against Edward II in the Marcher War which ended with the Battpe of Boroughbridge. Edward would come to regret not executing him as Mortimer returned in September 1326 as one of the leaders of the army that disposed him.

You got my teenage son and daughter both watching your channel...you're a magnificent storyteller and pick such interesting content

I am of Greek descent but I greatly admire the critical analysis of a British historian that presents researched facts impartially and looks at history through the eyes of the common person.

Ghastly beyond imagination and such an important piece of history. Also, you helped dismiss a family myth.
My dear parent was forever going on about always wearing best underclothes because 'when you die, that's the last thing people will remember'.  Thank you. This video forever dispelled any further concern I harbored about death and  underwear.

The guy who examined Anne Bolyn's bones should have made some reference to her having her head cut off and whether there was any evidence to that on the bones.

To say that quote is one of my favourites I think would be a bit macabre...but in its own way, it is - he refuses to hold back, he will not shirk from the absolute horror of the way these people ended up in this chapel, and he paints such a vivid image of the atmosphere he feels when he's there, that it's impossible not to feel the hairs on the back of your neck stand up when you read his words. My grandmother said similar about visiting Tuol Slengh in Cambodia, where Pol Pot did his very worst; the birds, she said, refused to enter the grounds of the building. They'd sit on the trees outside the grounds - but never go in. The scent of death was all around.

“The ornaments of court,” what a perfect description of courtiers. 👏🏻

I read a book about A Boleyn but they didnt mention the coffin, you are indeed well informed.

"Hey, can we not let the dead rest?" Well said.

Wake up, make a coffee, load up youtube and notice The History Squad have a new video out. These are my kind of mornings 😊

Bigger questions : Why has she never had her name cleared and why has she never been given a proper burial, preferably with her daughter?

It is not right to keep her there for tourist dollars.  Set her free.

Thank you so much for running this channel, Kevin! I really wish I'd had a history teacher like you teaching me during high school, at the time we were just reading from books, it wasn't engaging at all and I thought history was boring...how wrong I was.

I feel very sad that Anne was just tossed in a box and forgotten. Absolutely horrifying to imagine what it would have been like, walking to one's own death. Tragic.

Elizabeth had a throne chair(effectively) set up in her mother's family's home parish. She had it placed so she could honor her mother and probably her uncle as well. She also wore a ring, removed@ her death, with her initial(a huge "E") which, when opened, revealed miniatures of Anne, her mother,& herself.  Elizabeth NEVER forgot her mother.
She did, however, know what to say and when. Much like her sister Mary Tudor, she knew well the horror that could  hit you- Queen or not.