Henry VIII – The Lover
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As we all know, Henry VIII had many wives, six to be precise. He desperately wanted a son to take over the throne.
His first wife, Catherine of Aragon, was the widow of his later brother, Arthur and Henry was married to her for twenty-four years ~ a long time for him! By Catherine, he had a daughter, Mary.
He fell for Anne Boleyn, one of Catherine’s Ladies in Waiting, and, it is thought, that this golden charm was one of his first love gifts to her.
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This charm served many purposes. There is a whistle on it, as well as a salt spoon and an ear pick.
He ended up divorcing Catherine and leaving the Catholic Church which would have “none of it” to marry his Anne Boleyn. Anne gave him a daughter, Elizabeth, who went on to become the famed Elizabeth I. So she did not last long before he had her beheaded for some, perhaps trumped-up, reasons. There is a wonderful movie, “Anne of The Thousand Days” which depicts this rather gone-wrong love story.
We certainly did not mean this to be Henry VIII 101 but saw the photo of this trinket and thought it would be fun to share.
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