Second wife of Henry VIII and so Queen of England, 1533 to 1536. Though married to Catherine of Aragon, Henry developed a passion for one of her maids of honour, Anne, and so began the whole horrid mess which was the Reformation. the happy couple were married on 25 January 1533 and Anne gave birth to Elizabeth (later Queen) on 9 September that year. It's always said that Anne refused Henry's advances until they were married so the baby must have been almost a month premature. Anyway, Anne failed to produce any more living children, let alone the longed-for boy and Henry's eyes alighted on Jane Seymour. Anne was accused of high treason, adultery, incest and parking on a double yellow line, found guilty and beheaded on Tower Green.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Anne Boleyn
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Anne Boleyn beheaded - 1946
This image comes from the 1946 short documentary film 'Prisoners of the Tower...
Drapers' Hall
Drapers' Hall On this site, once part of the Augustine Priory, Thomas Cromwel...
Queen Elizabeth's Oak
The old tree is presumably gradually being decomposed by beetles and the like...
Tower of London execution site
Catling wrote the poem as well as creating the sculpture. Doesn't that cushio...
Tower of London execution site - c.1910
This image came from Twitter via Londonist, and from the children's clothes m...
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John Rochester
Monk at London Charterhouse. Exiled to the Charterhouse in Hull and then executed in York.
Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham
Born Wales. His father was executed by Richard III. Buckingham was part of the court of Henry VII and Henry VIII but his Plantagenet heritage made Henry suspicious of him and so following a trial...
Thomas Reeding
Lay brother at London Charterhouse. Taken Taken to Newgate Prison, chained and left to starve to death.
Laurence Parnam
Burnt at the stake in Bow (or possibly Stratford) for his Protestant beliefs.
Richard Fitzalan, 11th Earl of Arundel
Had been one of the group who arranged for the execution of Simon Burley. King Richard never forgave that, and when Fitzalan joined Gloucester to oppose the King's peace with France the King took ...
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Freddie Mercury - Gladstone Avenue
TW14, Gladstone Avenue, 22
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Bronze RIBA Award at Stockleigh Hall
NW8, Prince Albert Road, 51, Stockleigh Hall
The round plaque above reads "London Architecture Medal, 1937, RIBA" and is normally considered sufficient advertisement of the building'...
Thames head
GL7, Tetbury Road, near Kemble, Tewksbury Mead
The lettering in this granite stone was originally picked out, probably in gold or black, but now the only way to see that the lettering ...
Annie Besant
Theosophist, women's rights activist, writer and orator and supporter of Irish and Indian self rule. Born Annie Wood at 2 Fish Street Hill. Married, aged 19, Frank Besant (brother to Sir Walter) bu...
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