Henry VIII

Did Henry VIII Regret What Happened To Anne Boleyn?

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Even before the exEcution of Anne Boleyn, Henry had already selected his third wife.

Jane Seymour was one of Anne's ladies-in-waiting.

The King married Jane, a mere ten days after Anne's death.

But did he have any regrets over the death of a queen he once was so passionate about?

Despite Henry’s barbaric treatment of Anne, the King regretted his actions until the day he died in 1547, according to a leading Historian.

Sandra Vasoli, who has studied little-known accounts of the monarch’s final hours, has uncovered details showing that his grief over Anne "ate away at him".

Ms Vasoli, who wrote the 2015 book ‘Anne Boleyn's Letter from the Tower: A New Assessment’, is an expert on Tudor history, specialising on Henry and Anne.

Ms Vasoli claims that Henry was unable to create the passion he shared with Anne, with any of his other wives.

During her research, the historian stumbled across a volume called ‘biographical memorials’ in the British Library, which contains a key piece of evidence about Henry’s regrets over Anne.

The book’s author, a man named Bishop White, quotes André Thevet, a Sixteenth Century French explorer, who had contact with Henry’s courtiers.

Thevet, who wrote the book ‘Cosmographie Universalle’, was a Franciscan friar, who Ms Vasoli says may have lived in the friary next to Greenwich Palace, at the same time as the King.

Thevet’s record of Henry’s final words is quoted by Bishop White on a scrappy piece of parchment in his volumes, which Ms Vasoli translated from old French.

It reads:

“The King acknowledges with great grief at his death. the injuries he had done to the lady Anne Boleyn and her daughter.”

Underneath Thevet writes~

"Several English gentlemen have confided to me, that he has repented upon his deathbed of the injustices done to Queen Anne Boleyn.

Of her having been falsely accused, and for the punishment imposed upon her that she died in good Christian standing and is to be buried in accordance with the church of Rome.

That at Henry's death, he regretted with great grief the injustices he had done

It is in association with this situation, that he – Henry – has attempted to right these injustices, and with his whole heart, signs his name to this testimony"

Protestant historian John Foxe supported the assertion that Henry VIII did indeed do some repenting during his final hours.

In his book 'Actes and Monuments' Foxe explained that as Henry VIII’s health deteriorated, the ailing monarch then proceeded to “consider his life past.”

“‘Yet,’ said Henry, "is the mercy of Christ able to pardon me all my sins, though they were greater than they be"

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https://www.express.co.uk/.../king-henry-viii-regrets...

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Henry VIII's first interaction with Anne Boleyn~ Daniel Maclise 1835.