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As I wander through the final stage of my life, I sometimes think of that thing that I never considered when I was young, death, and I wonder how I will face it. I suspect without fear, hopefully with a joke (which is how I have confronted pain when it has come to me). Those of us who have gone in harms way have known that death was an imminent threat but shrugged it off as something that would take "the other guy" and the other guy often looked surprised in death which likely proves that they too were thinking that it wouldn't be them. But those of us who are condemned to death (which is all) and nearing the moment, must think of it occasionally. Here we have a story of someone who it is reported faced it bravely (or was it stoically). Is there a difference?
The final days of Anne Boleyn
Posted from historyextra.com
England
World History
Death
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Anne's a complicated character...I think history (and popular fiction) has missed the mark. My guess, Anne thought she would survive, and probably didn't have much time to really "think" about it once reality hit home. Maybe it was just a different mindset for a different time; by 16th Century standards, she was already "middle aged", and perhaps those folks just expected it earlier. I also think she was trying to protect her daughter more than anything else... if she had acted the part of the "guilty", rather than "martyr"... perhaps that would've harmed Elizabeth's immediate future. I don't like to think anyone "deserved" to have their head lopped off... but neither do I think of her as an "innocent victim"; she ran a pretty long and definitely "dirty" campaign in her bid to be Queen. Maybe she factored her fate into the bargain, and took comfort that at the very least... she had worn the Crown.
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CPT Jack Durish
That may be true and would explain her apparent attitude in those final days. I don't think there's a reprieve awaiting any of us at the end of a long life...
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