Virginia Breeze

Tomorrow evening is the season finale of The Tudors.

Do you know what that means? Yes my friends. Henry VIII is going to have Ann killed. But that is not the unusual part. Lovers quarrel and kill each other all the time.

Henry on the other hand manages to kill his wife after he obtains a legal document granting him permission to do it. And he convinces thousands of his fellow citizens that it is a good idea for their queen to be beheaded.

They all have a party. And then she is escorted to the block and they watch as a guy with a mask chops her head off. A remarkable precedent is set and as we see in the next two centuries one that is not forgotten. First the queen. Then the king.

All of this pretty much blows my mind.

Ann should have known it was time to RUN long before this fateful day. Here is a portion of a love letter Henry wrote to her years earlier. There are love letters between the two that have been saved, ironically enough, in the Vatican Library. The love smitten King of England says. . .

“No more to you at this present mine own darling for lack of time but that I would you were in my arms or I in yours for I think it long since I kissed you. Written after the killing of an hart at a xj. of the clock minding with God’s grace tomorrow mightily timely to kill another: by the hand of him which I trust shortly shall be yours.”

Henry R.

Nice. He was probably trying to tell her something.

“I love you my dear. Run like a deer! I find it necessary to kill things when I am thinking of you.”

It really is a sad tale. And a true one. I have to give Showtime credit for making history come alive in this instance. I am sure there are lots of inaccuracies but history is full of those. I give them credit for trying.

Isn’t it ironic that these two produced one of the great rulers of all time in Queen Elizabeth I.

Here is some more information about Ann Boleyn and her life.

http://englishhistory.net/tudor/monarchs/boleyn.html

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Do you enjoy history when it is brought to television? Are there any shows that you feel have been particularly well done?

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I joined BlogCatalog a few days ago. And I have just had a chance to go back and look around. Meanwhile, a bunch of people had stopped by and were very friendly while I was out doing other things. It made me realize that I need to slow down. It taxes the brain to run a blog here as well as one at Wordpress.org and get up to speed with Technorati, Flickr and a few other things. Why do it? This blog is supposed to be about relaxing as we grow older. And I am sitting here trying to figure out how to put stuff in the right and left column of a template that doesn’t benefit from all the support one gets here. So I sat down, took a deep breathe and went out surfing for something more interesting.

And found it. This website must be what people talk about when they mention web 2.0. Because 95 percent of it involves love letters. These are the deepest feelings of individuals for each other put forth with utmost sincerity in very creative ways. In other words, it is a very special and unique sort of place.

I was revived after spending some time there. And now it’s time to go be with Beth. Because those moments reminded me so much of her. http://www.1millionlovemessages.com/