Title: The Six Wives of Henry XIII (Via Amazon Prime)
Episode Title: Anne Boleyn (2 of 4)
Release date 2001
This episode was rather odd for me, because it was not very sympathetic towards Anne, and describes her as pretty much someone who manipulated Henry to get power. Given how the first episode seemed sympathetic towards Catherine I was surprised, expected this to be the same for the second Queen, who, from all accounts I know of, was falsely accused because of her inability to give Henry a son.
I also wonder that they had no mention that one of Anne’s miscarriages was around the same time Henry had an accident. Perhaps that was not a widely accepted connection. I also feel that this episode didn’t really go much into Anne but those around her being mad that she was Queen, or being happy for the same reason. Perhaps it is because Anne is often the most known of the Queens in pop culture due to her death, and the fact that she was Queen Elizabeth’s mother.
This episode gets a C, as it felt rather unbalanced in its reporting of Anne, but the overall series still gets an A.
