Today in 1536, Anne Boleyn Queen of the Protestant reformation was killed on the Tower Green in the Tower of London. Her co-conspirators or whatever they were called were killed two days prior.
Some people don't like her because she is said to have seduced the king and acted immorally with him. I don't buy this. He sought her out and threatened her family, and what are you going to do in that case if you were her or them? She had precontracted with a decent young man that she probably would have rather married at some point, saying to Henry that the whole affair resulted in "farewell to her youth having spent it to no purpose at all, when [she] could have born sons which is a woman's greatest conslation in this world."
Whatever her deserving of her fate, she is said to have died with dignity, saying of King Henry "a kinder more merciful prince there never was." I think she accomplished with irony what she wasn't able to say directly for fear of how it would impact her family and supporters.
Here is my analysis of how they tried her with so little evidence:
http://www.helium.com/items/1041337-people-tragic-queen-boleyn
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