Anne Boleyn: The 17 Days Between Arrest and Execution

Seventeen days separated Anne Boleyn's arrest on 2 May 1536 from her execution on 19 May. How did Henry VIII's queen lose her crown, her freedom and her life so quickly? We follow the succession crisis, the charges, the trial records and the accounts of her final days. An indictment records an accusation; it does not independently prove guilt. Later portraits and paintings are presented in their historical context, and illustrative scenes are not authentic records of the events. 00:00 Seventeen days 00:43 A crown under pressure 03:03 The case against the queen 05:50 The sentence and the memory New videos every Tuesday and Friday. Subscribe to Record and Rumour for history grounded in evidence. Sources: Historic Royal Palaces — Anne Boleyn: https://www.hrp.org.uk/tower-of-londo... The National Archives — Anne Boleyn's trial (KB 8/9): https://cdn.nationalarchives.gov.uk/d... UK Parliament — Act of Supremacy 1534: https://www.parliament.uk/about/livin... Historic Royal Palaces — Thomas Cromwell: https://www.hrp.org.uk/tower-of-londo... Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, vol. 10, 1536 — contemporary correspondence, read critically alongside the judicial records. Visual sources: public-domain portraits, historical plans and later paintings from Wikimedia Commons, including the sixteenth-century Anne Boleyn portrait, works after Holbein, Gerlach Flicke's Thomas Cranmer (1545), Edouard Cibot's Anne in the Tower (1835), and Aimee Brune-Pages' Anne's Condemnation (1832). Original maps use Natural Earth public-domain data. The KB 8/9 diagram and timelines are editorial summaries. Music: Final Transmission; The Six Realms; The Guardian of The Threshold; The Four Masks — I Think I Can Help You, YouTube Audio Library.