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Over-Analyzing All the References in 6: "Don't Lose Your Head"

Andrea Macasaet (center, equally Anne Boleyn) with the bandage of "6."LIZ LAUREN

Hang on a sec. Who was that other one?

Aragon: I think you're thinking of me!

No, there was definitely a actually important 1.

Aragon: Yes, yet me!

Aye. I call back she, like, overlapped with you. Yep, the really of import, controversial one that people really care about. Yeah. Y'all know…

The one y'all've been waiting for. The mystery, The ane who changed history. The temptress. The ane with the programme, The plan to steal the man!

Queens: Anne!

The one who chased the king , But paid the cost with a swordsman's swing.

Queens: Volition she be the one to win? Anne Boleyn, Anne Boleyn, Anne Boleyn, Anne Boleyn, Anne Boleyn, Anne Boleyn, Anne Boleyn!

Boleyn: What? Oh… sad.

She points to Maggie and she gives her a beat.

A German engraving c. 1830, showing Anne Boleyn's execution.

I don't know of whatever way to testify this with a report or anything, but Anne Boleyn is arguably the near famous of Henry Viii'southward wives. If you lot talk to random people on the street and enquire them to proper name the vi wives, I promise yous, Anne Boleyn is the one they're most probable to get right. She was notorious at the time and only grew more notorious subsequently her death, equally rumors about her being a witch and having six fingers grew and grew over the centuries.

Incorrect thing here - all the records we take indicate that Henry 8 actually chased Anne for a long time; she was definitely not the one pursuing him. The chief thing distinguishing Anne from the other women Henry had already slept with outside of his marriage was that she refused to do so. She wanted to be married if she was going to exist with the king. It's a damn shame that she'southward been called a whore for centuries because of that.

Anne was indeed executed by a French swordsman. By and large, those executed in England were killed by an axe wielded by an English language executioner who could have a lot of experience or very petty. An nonclerical executioner could depict out the pain and expiry significantly (see: Margaret Pole, executed in 1541 - some reports betoken that an inexperienced axemen missed her neck the showtime time, hitting her shoulder instead, and had to hit her x more times with the axe earlier she died.). So it was actually pretty merciful of Henry to summon an expert swordsman from Saint-Omer in France to perform the execution. She was killed very quickly and expertly and probable felt much less pain than she would take otherwise.

Equally I noted previously, Maggie the Guitar Player (in the band Ladies in Waiting) is named for Lady Margaret Wyatt, who served Anne Boleyn and was probable her closest friend. She served as chief mourner at her funeral. You lot can larn more about all the Ladies in Waiting in my previous mail service on them here .

VERSE ane
Grew upwardly in the French Courtroom, Oui, oui, bonjour

A portrait of Anne Boleyn past an unknown artist, copied from an original by Hans Holbein the Younger.

I've seen people misinterpret this line online as indicating that Anne Boleyn was French. That is Non the case. Anne was an English woman, the girl of Thomas Boleyn, a prominent diplomat who served both Henry VIII and his begetter Henry VII, and his married woman Lady Elizabeth Howard (part of the powerful Howard family), but as was fairly common for the fourth dimension, Anne was sent abroad from her family unit to complete her education in the households of various noble families. Those families simply happened to be some of the rulers of the Netherlands and France.

Anne was sent to bring together the household of Margaret of Austria in 1513 (in the low countries, in modern mean solar day Kingdom of belgium), when Anne was either 12 or half dozen (Anne's exact nativity yr is unknown and there are NUMEROUS debates almost which year is more probable - 1501 or 1507). Margaret of Austria was the daughter of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, and was serving as the governor of the Habsburg Netherlands at the time. Anne's father Thomas had been sent as an envoy to Margaret the yr before and got along then well with her that he managed to secure Anne'southward place at the time. Margaret of Austria was highly educated and cultured and her court had a reputation for having an extremely well-stocked library and fine art collection. Scholars, poets, and artists were constantly around the court. Here, Anne gained a fluency in French, which led to Mary Tudor choosing her for her household in the French Court in 1514.

About a year later she went to Margaret of Austria'south court, Anne was sent to serve Mary Tudor, Henry 8'due south sister, who was marrying the French King, Louis XII. Anne'south sister Mary probably served Mary Tudor as well, just it'due south a fiddling unclear how long either of them served her, equally many of her English attendants were dismissed the solar day subsequently the hymeneals. Less than three months into the marriage, the French king died. Although Mary Tudor went back to England (and scandalously married Charles Brandon, Knuckles of Suffolk, without Henry Eight's knowledge or permission), Anne Boleyn stayed on in France and joined the household of the new Queen, the 15-year-one-time Claude. Queen Claude also loved scholarly manuscripts and fine art, and so her court was full of such beautiful things and exciting people.

By the time Anne was recalled to England in Jan 1522, she had spent 7-8 years of her life on mainland Europe and almost that long in the French court. She would take been there from ages 12-xx OR ages 6-14. Either way, although she was English language born, it's more than than fair to say that she "grew upward in the French court."

"Oui Oui Bonjour" means "aye yes, howdy" in French.

Life was a chore and so (she set sail), 1522 came direct to the Great britain - All the British dudes, lame (Epic neglect)

Anne Boleyn was summoned back to England in January 1522 by her father to ally her Irish cousin, James Butler, in order to settle a dispute over a championship and some land. This marriage fell through for an unknown reason.

At this time, Anne Boleyn'southward sis Mary Boleyn was at Henry Seven's court. Historical records betoken that Mary Boleyn was Henry'southward mistress, and rumors grow that one or both of Mary's children were Henry's, equally opposed to her married man William Carey'due south, simply in that location's no definitive evidence on the subject field. Anne joined the court at least by March 1522 as a maid of accolade to Queen Catherine of Aragon, and speedily became very well known in that location. She was described every bit beingness very intelligent, stylish, and quick-witted. Plainly she had numerous admirers among the men at court, including the poet Sir Thomas Wyatt. Anne really entered into a hole-and-corner betrothal with Henry Percy, son of the Earl of Northumberland, but this was broken off when Percy'south father and Cardinal Thomas Wolsey (who was acting as the male monarch'south chief courtier at this fourth dimension) both refused to back up the lucifer.

"The U.k." and "British dudes" - Technically the U.k. (United kingdom) wasn't called that until 1800, when Parliament passed an act uniting Great U.k. and Ireland every bit "The Great britain of Dandy Great britain and Ireland." In Anne Boleyn's fourth dimension, information technology was just called England and its inhabitants were only chosen English, not British (although the Romans called the British Isles Britannia and occasionally referred to the larger isle equally Great Britain, the name wasn't widely used to refer to the kingdom on the British Isles until 1707, when the kingdoms of England and Scotland were officially joined into one political wedlock).

Thomas Boleyn, Viscount Rochford, Anne's father.

Ooh, I wanna dance and sing - Politics, non my thing

Anne was an extremely accomplished dancer, vocalizer, and played numerous musical instruments. Even so, later Henry put her in a position of power, Anne actually wielded tremendous influence on his policy, peculiarly as it related to faith. At that place'southward show that Anne persuaded Henry to read then chosen "heretical" pamphlets by Protestant writers nigh how kings had a responsibleness to control the Catholic church and cease its excesses. She also was very influential in granting petitions, receiving diplomats, and was a patron to numerous nobles and artists, including the famed Hans Holbein.

I don't love this line and some of the others in the musical because of the ditzy way in which Anne is portrayed, which is very unlike from reality. However, I try to remind myself that she's just a character, and she isn't meant to exist historically accurate.

Ooo, only and then I met the King - And presently my daddy said, y'all should endeavor and get ahead

It appears that Anne caught Henry VIII'southward eye in 1526. Having learned from her sister'southward example though, Anne refused to sleep with him or become his mistress. She quickly gained the ability to influence the rex.

There isn't much evidence that her father Thomas Boleyn actually pushed Anne toward her relationship with Henry, but this is a common portrayal of the state of affairs in books, picture, and TV shows.

He wanted me, huh, apparently, Messaging me similar everyday,
Couldn't be better, and then he sent me a alphabetic character and who am I kidding, I was prêt-à-manger
Ooh, sent a reply, Ooh, only maxim hullo, Ooh, y'all're a nice guy, I'll think about it maybe, XO baby

Henry VIII wrote Anne many love letters which still be today. You tin can read them here. These letters requite us most of the information we have about their human relationship, including the fact that Anne refused to slumber with him for much of their 7-twelvemonth courting.

Unfortunately, we don't have Anne's replies to Henry, but evidence indicates that she actually did avoid his advances for a long time and

Prêt-à-manger literally ways "ready to swallow" in French.

Here we get (You sent him kisses), I didn't know I would move in with his missus (What?),
Go a life (You're living with his wife?), Like, what was I meant to do?

As I noted previously in the weblog post on No Way, Anne Boleyn was already living in the aforementioned palace as Henry and Catherine fifty-fifty earlier Henry noticed her. Anne was Catherine's maid of accolade, and thus, lived at courtroom forth with many many other nobles and aristocrats. However, in December 1528, Henry set Anne upwards with her own "very fine lodging…close to his own," equally reported by a French diplomat of the time, and at that place are lots of reports that she basically had her ain shadow court and was acting as a 2nd queen at that fourth dimension.

"What was I meant to exercise?" has a slightly humorous event in this vocal, but it reflects the reality that Anne Boleyn actually didn't have many choices here. She was able to resist Henry's sexual advances, only she couldn't fend him off altogether because he was the male monarch, and her livelihood and the residual of her family unit's livelihoods really depended on his favor. She tried to make the best of the situation by refusing to sleep with him and insisting that he ally her, but she didn't have much control over it beyond that.

CHORUS
Distressing non sorry 'bout what I said - I'm just tryna have some fun

In an interview with the Chicago Shakespeare Theater, co-writer Lucy Moss said that "Lamentable, not sad" was directly inspired by one of Anne Boleyn'southward mottoes in life - "Let them grumble; that is how it's going to exist." Anne very briefly adopted the Latin version of this motto in 1530, "Aisi sera groigne qui groigne." She even had this motto embroidered on her servants' livery coats! This demonstrates Anne's feelings about those protesting her elevation and the rex's attempts to get rid of Catherine of Aragon. She didn't end up using it very long - the imperial ambassador Eustace Chapuys, who /hated/ Anne, claimed that she inverse it once she realized it was actually Margaret of Austria's motto (Groigne qui groigne et, vive Bourgoigne). However, Anne spent several years at the courtroom of Margaret of Austria as a kid, so information technology seems unlikely that she wouldn't take realized this. Another possible explanation is that she only realized the motto wasn't doing anything to calm the tensions.

Don't worry, don't worry, don't lose your head
I didn't hateful to hurt anyone - LOL, say oh well - Or become to hell
I'1000 pitiful not sorry 'tour what I said - Don't lose your head

"Don't lose your head" is a common colloquialism significant "don't lose your atmosphere." I tried to figure out where this saying came from and how onetime it is, just didn't have much success. Some people practice say that it actually originally specifically was referring to executions by beheading, and so information technology works very well in this context.

The lyric obviously refers to Anne's ultimate demise, simply it also refers to Anne Boleyn'south infamous temper. Anne was bright, but it's well documented that when angry, she often said spiteful, threatening things. 1 courtier said that she spoke to her uncle in one case in words that "shouldn't be used to a dog." Information technology'south also reported that she said if Henry ever left her every bit Regent when he was abroad, she would have Princess Mary killed.

Henry Eight and Anne Boleyn at Central Wolsey'southward, Library of Congress

Verse ii
Three in the bed and the petty one said, If you wanna be wed, brand up your listen
Her or me, chum - Don't wanna be some Girl in a threesome, Are you blind?

Reports from the time indicated that Anne and Henry had a very stormy relationship and had a tendency to accept huge arguments and then after would reunite blissfully. 1 report described their relationship equally "storm followed sunshine, sunshine followed storm." We also know from Henry'southward love letters that Anne refused to slumber with him for almost of their pre-marital relationship, so there'due south definitely a lot of truth to the fact that Anne demanded things from Henry that really no other woman ever had.

"3 in the bed and the little one said" - refers to the plant nursery rhyme "Ten in the Bed," which has an unknown origin.

Ooh, don't be bitter, Ooh, 'cause I'm fitter
Ooh, why hasn't it hit her? He doesn't want to bang you, Somebody hang yous

"Somebody hang y'all" is both modern day slang for telling someone to kind of fuck off and too refers to an incident in 1531, before Anne was queen. Anne "said to one of the Queen'southward ladies that she wished all the Spaniards in the world were in the sea; and on the other replying, that, for the accolade of the Queen, she should non say so, she said that she did not intendance anything for the Queen, and would rather encounter her hanged than acknowledge her equally her mistress."

Here we become - (Your comment went viral)
I didn't really hateful it only rumours spiral
( Wow Anne, style to make the country detest you)
Mate, what was I meant to practise?

Anne actually was pretty unpopular at the time. The English people really loved Catherine of Aragon; she had been their queen since 1509 and had seen the country through many tough times, including serving as regent while Henry was away at state of war and publicly begging for the King'south mercy for various subjects on several occasions. Records indicate that crowds shouted out encouragement to Catherine of Aragon whenever they saw her during the king's "Great Matter."

In add-on, the entire concept that a man could prepare aside his wife really scared women, as information technology was an set on on traditional family values and a threat to their ain security. At the time, women depended entirely on their husbands. If their husbands could fix them aside, they would be ruined and destitute. In November 1531, a mob of women (supposedly seven,000-8,000) actually went after Anne while she was dining at a house on a river; she simply narrowly escaped them by crossing the river in a boat. This wasn't the last riot of women against Anne Boleyn either; some other i happened in 1532.

Finally, apart from the common people's general dislike of her, plenty of nobles hated her too, equally she had a atmosphere and a precipitous tongue and was known for being rather arrogant. She also played a large role in influencing Henry VIII and was very active in her back up of or opposition to various policies.

CHORUS

Pope Clement Seven, by Sebastiano del Piombo, c. 1531. He condemned Henry and Anne's marriage and ordered Henry to return to Catherine of Aragon.

VERSE three
Tried to elope, Just the pope said nope , Our only promise was Henry
He got a promotion, Caused a mayhem, Set in motion the C of E
The rules were so outdated, Us two wanted to get 10-rated
Soon, ex-communicated , Everybody chill, its totes God'south will

"Tried to elope only the pope said nope" - Henry started request Pope Cloudless VII for a impunity to counteract his marriage to Catherine of Aragon and marry Anne Boleyn starting around 1527. They likely thought this would exist pretty easy, every bit at that place was precedent for royals getting annulments and marrying again. Yet, Catherine of Aragon merely happened to exist the aunt of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles Five, who sacked Rome in May 1527 and took the Pope prisoner. However, even after the Pope was released, he avoided issuing whatsoever sort of official ruling on Henry Viii'southward petition. He did allow for Cardinal Wolsey (of England, and then Henry'due south chief courtier) to concur an ecclesiastical court on the matter, but stipulated that some other papal legate had to be there as well. This legate, Cardinal Lorenzo Campeggio, had been instructed to delay things as long as possible, as the Pope was hoping that Henry would go sick of Anne and the issue would go away. Although the court case lasted from May 31, 1529 to July, Campeggio adjourned information technology for a summertime recess. The court never met once more. Wolsey was later arrested and probable would have been convicted and executed for treason if he hadn't died from illness beforehand. Henry eventually left Catherine of Aragon completely, riding away one day without saying goodbye and having her moved to another household.

Henry and Anne married secretly in November 1532. She quickly became pregnant. The new Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer (formerly Anne'south family chaplain) declared Henry's marriage to Catherine of Aragon zero and void in May 1533, and shortly thereafter, alleged Henry and Anne'south marriage to exist skillful and valid.

Thomas Cranmer by Gerlach Flicke. Cranmer was the Boleyns' erstwhile family clergyman, married Anne and Henry, and declared Henry's first marriage to Catherine of Aragon naught and void.

"He got a promotion, Caused a commotion, Set in motion the C of Eastward" In 1533, the English language House of Commons (with encouragement from Henry) forbade all appeals to Rome and penalized those who tried to introduce papal bulls into England. This gear up the modern Church of England, split from Rome and the Pope's influence. Afterward this, Pope Clement Seven finally acted, condemning Henry's union to Anne, declaring the spousal relationship to Catherine legal, and ordering Henry to render to Catherine in March 1534. The Pope too appear a provisional sentence of excommunication against Henry VIII and Thomas Cranmer. However,his excommunication wouldn't be formally enacted until 1538, after Henry and his courtiers dissolved the monasteries in England, dismantled several of the shrines, and executed a ton of Catholic rebels involved in the Pilgrimage of Grace.

In late 1534, Parliament declared Henry the supreme head of the Church of England.

"The rules were so outdated" probably refers to Henry not beingness able to annul his marriage to his starting time married woman.

[wedding march plays]

At this interruption, a department of Felix Mendelssohn'southward Nuptials March from A Midsummer Dark's Dream plays. This song was written in 1842 and is one of the most frequently used nuptials marches.

Henry's out every night on the town, Just sleeping around, like what the hell

Proceed in mind, earlier Henry got with Anne, he slept with her sister Mary enough that LOTS of people believed that Mary'south children were his. That's gotta make you lot paranoid. And he already had an acknowledged illegitimate child with another noblewoman, Bessie Blount.

Henry started taking mistresses during Anne'south get-go pregnancy (couples at the time generally abstained from sex during pregnancy to avert pain the child). was almost certainly sleeping with Anne's first cousin Margaret Shelton, who served as one of her maids of honor, for around six months in 1535. Finally, starting in February 1536, reports came out that Henry was super interested in some other of Anne's maids-of-honor, Jane Seymour. We all know how that turned out. Henry reportedly gave Jane a locket with a miniature portrait of himself within; Anne ripped information technology off her cervix when she saw it. Henry was matrimonial to Jane a day later on Anne's execution in May 1536 and married her less than two weeks afterward the execution.

If that'due south how it's gonna be, Maybe I'll flirt with a guy or iii, Just to make him jell

/sigh/ This is a vast oversimplification of the entire situation at paw, but yes, Anne was known for being flirtatious and charming throughout her time at the English Court in the tradition of ladylike beloved. Withal, she was specifically accused of adultery with one of her musicians Marking Smeaton, courtiers Sir Henry Norris, Sir Francis Weston, and Sir William Brereton, and her own brother George Boleyn. Almost historians believe that these charges and the evidence to support them were made up by Thomas Cromwell, a powerful courtier, in club to bring downwards Anne. Anne had argued with Cromwell over the redistribution of church revenues from the dissolution of the monasteries (Anne wanted the revenues distributed to charitable and educational institutions, Cromwell wanted to give information technology to the rex and take his ain cut too) and foreign policy (they disagreed over whether to ally with French republic or the Holy Roman Empire).

Henry finds out and he goes mental, He screams and shouts , Like so judgmental, You lot dam-ned witch
Mate, just close up, I wouldn't be such a b- If you lot could go information technology upwardly
Here we go (Is that what you lot said?), And now he's going 'circular like off with her head (No)

There's a report of one argument between Henry and Anne after the investigation against her began, just most bear witness seems to indicate that Henry just left a tournament one day and never spoke to Anne again. She was arrested soon after, taken to the Belfry of London, and tried and bedevilled of adultery, incest, and high treason. However, Henry and Anne had definitely had some serious arguments earlier Anne was brought down. There are numerous reports of them fighting and shouting at each other.

"you damned witch" - It's pretty common to hear that Anne Boleyn was a witch or engaged in witchcraft in some way at present, but this wasn't a real charge at the time. However, in later years, various people spread the rumor. One Cosmic writer Nicholas Sander described Anne Boleyn as having 6 fingers on her right paw and having a projecting tooth (but he said this in 1585, so like - how would he know?). He also alleged that she miscarried a monstrously deformed child. None of Anne's contemporaries actually mention her having an actress finger, projecting tooth, or deformed child- and considering how much they hated her, wouldn't they have mentioned information technology at the time if she did?

"wouldn't exist such a b- if you could get it upwardly" - Equally I noted before in the post on Wives, in that location's no historical bear witness near Henry's abilities in bed to back up this line. However, this may refer to 1 of the grounds for the annulment of his union to Anna of Cleves afterwards in his life, as Henry claimed he could not consummate the spousal relationship with Anna. It also just seems to further demonstrate Anne's known habit of saying things in acrimony that she regretted later.

Yeah, I'm pretty certain he means it (Seems it) - What was I meant to practise? (What was she meant to do?)
Like what was I meant to practice? (What was she meant to practise?) - No, but what was I meant to do?

[dialogue break] Boleyn: No guys, seriously, he'due south actually going to chop my head off.
I guess he just really liked my head.

[back to music] CHORUS

(Sorry not distressing 'tour what she said), Sorry not deplorable 'bout what I said
Don't lose your head - Haha sorry

Boleyn: And then yeah. What a weekend.

Wait, did you actually die?

Boleyn: Yeah, information technology was and so actress. Anyway, I'yard obvs the winner, and so I recall I'll do another solo. My next vocal is one I wrote virtually the moment I institute out Catherine of Aragon had tragically died. Information technology's chosen "Wearing Yellow to a Funeral." Please sing along if you know the words.

The solar day after Catherine of Aragon's death, Anne Boleyn and Henry VIII appeared at court dressed "from to superlative to toe" in joyful xanthous. However, different chroniclers differ on whether information technology was Henry /or/ Anne /or/ both of them appeared in yellow, and whether this was intended to be a celebratory gesture or non.

Boleyn: Catherine was a massive-

The queens shout and cry in a large uproar.

Who decided you were the winner? She wants another turn?

Aragon: Over my dead trunk!

You Seem Like a Nice Guy I'll Think About It Maybe Xo Baby

Source: https://www.rachaeldickzen.com/blog/2020/6/25/dontloseyourhead

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