“I heard the executioner was very good. And I have a little old creaky neck.”

— Anne Boleyn

On her executioner, Blastmilk, "Anne Boleyn: The Midnight Crow, 1501-1536" http://www.blastmilk.com/decollete/tudor-england/anne-boleyn-the-midnight-crow.php, [published on] September 18, 2006

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Second wife of Henry VIII of England, mother of Queen Eliza… 1501–1536

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