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Sorry we didn't have much time to tell everything about Henry the Eighth,so maybe you can do it here ......

Henry VIII (28 June 1491 – 28 January 1547) was King of England and Lord of Ireland.he was famous for having been married six times.Henry VIII was the second son of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York.Henry VIII is known to have been an avid gambler and dice player. In his youth, he excelled at sports, especially jousting, hunting, and real tennis. He was also an accomplished mwas also involved in the original construction and improvement of several significant buildings, including Nonsuch Palace, King's College Chapel, Cambridge and Westminster Abbey in London.usician, author, and poet.

[quote="julien A"]Henry VIII (28 June 1491 – 28 January 1547) was King of England and Lord of Ireland.he was famous for having been married six times.Henry VIII was the second son of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York.Henry VIII is known to have been an avid gambler and dice player. In his youth, he excelled at sports, especially jousting, hunting, and real tennis. He was also an accomplished mwas ????

But , its not bad , now you know a little about this man ...
But I hope you'll learn more in the weeks to come !!!!

And also , please , could anyone add a nice picture of the BIG MAN , and maybe find an illustration of what the
TUDOR ROSE looks like ?????

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a nice picture of the BIG MAN !!!!!!!

vinz.

Good .. and quick , Vince , the portrait of Henry is excellent , but unfortunately , I can' t see the Tudor Rose ...
Also , you know of course that he Henry you are speaking about , the one who came after Richard III was Henry VIII's father , that is to say Henry VII ...

ANN BOLEYN:
Anne Boleyn, Queen Consort of England, 1st Marchioness of Pembroke[1] (ca. 1501/1507 – 19 May 1536)[2] was the second wife of King Henry VIII and the mother of Queen Elizabeth I. Henry's marriage to Anne, and her subsequent execution, were part of the complex beginning of the considerable political and religious upheaval which was the English Reformation, with Anne herself actively promoting the cause of Church reform. She has been called "the most influential and important queen consort England has ever had".[3]

Anne Boleyn is popularly known for having been beheaded on charges of adultery, incest and treason. She is widely assumed to be innocent of the charges, and was later celebrated as a martyr in English Protestant culture, particularly through the works of John Foxe. Her life has been adapted for numerous novels, plays, songs, operas, television dramas and motion pictures, including Anne of the Thousand Days, The Other Boleyn Girl, Transylvania (McFLY), The Tudors, The Six Wives of Henry VIII and Doomed Queen Anne.
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EXECUTION:
George Boleyn and the other accused men were executed on May 17. Lord and Lady Kingston, the keepers of the Tower, reported that Anne seemed very happy, and ready to be done with life. She was reported to have said, when Lord Kingston brought her the news that the King had commuted her sentence from burning to beheading, and had employed a swordsman from Calais for the execution, rather than having a queen beheaded with the common axe: "He shall not have much trouble, for I have a little neck. I shall be known as La Reine sans tête ['The Headless Queen']!"

They came for Anne on the morning of May 19 to take her to the Tower Green, where she was to be afforded the dignity of a private execution. The Constable of the Tower wrote this of her:

This morning she sent for me, that I might be with her at such time as she received the good Lord (i.e. took Communion), to the intent I should hear her speak as touching her innocency alway to be clear. And in the writing of this she sent for me, and at my coming she said, "Mr. Kingston, I hear I shall not die afore noon, and I am very sorry therefore, for I thought to be dead by this time and past my pain". I told her it should be no pain, it was so little. And then she said, "I heard say the executioner was very good, and I have a little neck", and then put her hands about it, laughing heartily. I have seen many men and also women executed, and that they have been in great sorrow, and to my knowledge this lady has much joy in death. Sir, her almoner is continually with her, and had been since two o'clock after midnight.

She wore a "red petticoat under a loose, dark grey gown of damask trimmed in fur". Her dark hair was bound up and she wore her customary French headdress. She made a short speech:

Good Christian people, I am come hither to die, for according to the law, and by the law I am judged to die, and therefore I will speak nothing against it. I am come hither to accuse no man, nor to speak anything of that, whereof I am accused and condemned to die, but I pray God save the king and send him long to reign over you, for a gentler nor a more merciful prince was there never: and to me he was ever a good, a gentle and sovereign lord. And if any person will meddle of my cause, I require them to judge the best. And thus I take my leave of the world and of you all, and I heartily desire you all to pray for me. O Lord have mercy on me, to God I commend my soul.

She then knelt upright (in French-style executions, with a sword, there was no block). Her final prayer consisted of her repeating, "To Jesus Christ I commend my soul; Lord Jesus receive my soul." Her ladies removed the headdress and tied a blindfold over her eyes. The execution was swift, consisting of a single stroke: according to one tale, the swordsman was so taken with Anne that he said, "Where is my sword?" and then beheaded her so she would think that she had just a few moments longer to live and would not know that the sword was coming.

Across the river the Scots reformer Alesius accompanied Thomas Cranmer as he walked in the gardens of Lambeth Palace. They may have heard the cannon fire from the Tower, signalling the end, for the Archbishop looked up and proclaimed: "She who has been the English queen on earth will today become a Heaven's queen". He then sat down on a bench and wept.[33]

The government had failed to provide a proper coffin for Anne. So, her body and head were put into an arrow chest and buried in an unmarked grave in the Chapel of St Peter ad Vincula. Her body was one that was identified in renovations of the chapel under the reign of Queen Victoria, so Anne's final resting place is now marked in the marble floor.

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sorry

TUDOR ROSE:
http://www.answers.com/topic/lancashire-rose-svg-1

Excellent !
Now I can see it , it's exactly that , good work , VINCE , I hope your friends will appreciate it, ( I do ) ...

Because , remember :
NOTHING IS FREE ...
Which means that you have to pay one day !!!!
( this means : get that into your head !!!!! )

king:
Windsor Castle is an official residence of The Queen and the largest occupied castle in the world. A Royal home and fortress for over 900 years, the Castle remains a working palace today.

Visitors can walk around the State Apartments, extensive suites of rooms at the heart of the working palace.

In the Castle complex there are many additional attractions, including the Drawings Gallery, Queen Mary's dolls' house, and the fourteenth-century St. George's Chapel, the burial place of ten sovereigns and setting for many Royal weddings
i was very interested about it i'm so exited to see that

That's a surprise for me because I would have wanted to add on the forum something about Ann B. and the others but I have just seen that everybody did before me !!!!!! EXCELENT !!!!!! That's a beginning !!

VERY NICE picture !!!

nice picture

HO!! the weather is great today

Last but not least: above is a photo of the infamous Bloody Tower, where -- it's believed-- in 1483 the Duke of Gloucester imprisoned his two young nephews, the princes who were the rightful heirs to the crown. They disappeared; he became King Richard the Third.

For lots more history, see the Tower of London Virtual Tour site, which also has a special tour for kids.

All in all, the Tower of London is a must-see attraction, and the more you know about its history, the more fascinating it becomes.

It would be interesting, too, to see the "Ceremony of the Keys": the traditional lock-up of the Tower of London at night. Every night -- at seven minutes to 10 pm-- the Chief Warder emerges from the Byward Tower in colorful dress, carrying a lantern and the Queen's Keys, for a brief ceremony that's been much the same for 700 years.

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