They called Anne Boleyn the Great Whore. It is a Bible thing. Great Whore is a title from the Book of Revelation, and it is "end of the world" stuff.
An apocalyptic title is overdoing it a bit. They exaggerated the threat Anne posed. Or has history grossly underestimated Anne Boleyn?
Was Anne an existential threat to the Catholic religion and what is known as Abrahamic faith?
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I must thank historians Lucy Worsley, Suzannah Lipscombe and Tracy Borman
for introducing Anne Boleyn to me. I must thank William Shakespeare for humanism. I must thank Elizabeth I for Shakespeare.
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22 Apr 2025
Anne Boleyn and the Big Bang
Anne Boleyn threatened the feudal system where lords owned people as property. She posed an existential threat to Lord Thomas Cromwell and 27 other lords of England. Lord Cromwell seized control of the Church of England—an institution Anne herself helped establish—he systematically dismantled her reputation and branded her the Great Whore, an apocalyptic title from the Book of Revelation. This calculated character assassination worked for centuries. In 1949 it finally became possible to resto...
20 Apr 2025
The Anne Boleyn Collective
Drawing on historical sources like Pliny, Lucian, Tacitus, and Josephus, we trace Anne's religious thinking back to early Christian humanism. When Anne said "Lord Jesus, receive my soul" at her execution, she wasn't speaking of a future resurrection but addressing Jesus "in real time"—a radical departure from medieval Catholic doctrine. Archbishop Thomas Cranmer recognized her religious significance when he declared, "She who has been the Queen of England upon earth will today become a Queen ...
12 Apr 2025
The Stolen Years of Henry VIII & Anne Boleyn
This podcast is about the battle for the soul of England. Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn transformed England from a Catholic country to a Protestant one. Their relationship spanned fourteen years. For ten years they were inseparable. Following her execution on May 15, 1536, Anne was ex-communicated by the Church of England. People were no longer free to talk about Anne but not talking about Anne meant not talking about Henry because they had been as one. The historical gaps in Henry VIII's ...
9 Apr 2025
by William Shakespeare
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4 Apr 2025
Anne Boleyn in the U.S.A.
The popular American conception of Anne as a temptress completely misses the truth revealed by her daughter Elizabeth I. When Elizabeth became Queen, she commissioned a family tree honoring her mother as "the most gracious Princess Lady Anne." This wasn't mere sentiment—when Anne emerged internationally in 1526, it was as Princess Anne Boleyn. My book uses Elizabeth's perspective as a primary source to reconstruct the authentic story of this remarkable woman whose humanist philosophy, had it ...
31 Mar 2025
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30 Mar 2025
A Love Story (Part 2)
A giant horse falls on Henry VIII, and England is forever changed—not because he died, but because of what returned in his place. This extraordinary exploration of Tudor history suggests that when the 44-year-old king suffered a catastrophic riding accident on January 24, 1536, his soul departed while his concussed body became a puppet for the manipulative Thomas Cromwell. At the heart of this tale stands Anne Boleyn, not merely as Henry's infamous second wife, but as England's first true hu...
26 Mar 2025
A Love Story (Part 1)
Anne Boleyn's remarkable story transcends the typical Tudor narrative of a queen who lost her head. She was systematically erased from history—her portraits destroyed, her letters burned, her emblems dismantled. Thomas Cromwell labeled her "The Great Whore" and worked tirelessly to remove her from historical memory. He succeeded. Then came Elizabeth to the throne. The fascinating dimensions of Anne and Henry's relationship reveal parallels to Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. Anne initial...
22 Mar 2025
The Great Whore Revisited
I was a guest on the Stacey Chillemi podcast recently. I had a great time and it helped me focus on Anne Boleyn even more sharply. 18 year old Anne was known as the king's whore and the king's concubine from 1526 onwards. She was not known as the Great Whore till after her death in 1536. The Great Whore, well that's another story. Send us a text Support the show
20 Mar 2025
Humanism
Anne Boleyn was an amazing human being. She was given an education that money could not buy. She was educated to be what she became and that was a thought leader and a conduit for humanism. The Renaissance gave us Michelangelo who painted God in the form of a man. The Renaissance gave us Anne Boleyn who understood what it meant for God to be a man. Anne understood the selfish gene in terms of the selfish nature of men and women. She understood selfish is not a dirty word because it is t...
9 Mar 2025
verses Richard Dawkins
What happens when brilliant minds from different centuries arrive at startlingly similar conclusions about religion? Anne Boleyn and Richard Dawkins emerge as unexpected intellectual companions in this thought-provoking exploration of religious criticism across time. The fascinating parallel between these two figures reveals how both discovered dual concepts of God within the Bible. Dawkins unearthed "a spaceman" and ancient Israel's "God of War." He was critiquing the omnipresent-spirit con...
4 Mar 2025
Introduction to Anne Boleyn
We will always be asking who was Anne Boleyn? Thomas Cromwell the architect of Anne's downfall created a mess. Anne was found guilty of witchcraft, adultery, incest and treason. Cromwell included in the infamous jury of 26 the father of Anne Boleyn. People were left to doubt Anne's innocence because she was condemned to die by her own father. It makes you think there was some truth to the charges against her. Something incredible went down on 15th May 1536. The outcome was that Anne wa...
3 Mar 2025
Whatever happened to Anne Boleyn's sins?
Anne Boleyn was found guilty of witchcraft, adultery, incest, and treason. But in her execution speech Anne did not ask for her sins to be forgiven. No surprise there because in the existential universe there is no such thing as sin and for Anne to have known this is evidence of genius. There were educators in France expecting a lot from Anne Boleyn and she delivered. She freed England from the Catholic Church. If there is no such thing as sin, then Jesus Christ did not die for the sin...
2 Mar 2025
The Route to Anne Boleyn
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