Which Boelyn sister did King Henry love more ??

Question

Mary or Anne and if Mary hadn't been married do you think King Henry would have married her instead of Anne ... do you think she would have been executed like her sister if she had become queen? (From what I have heard and read about her she was Anne's opposite - quiet and submissive) ...

and last but not least ... which sister was more conniving - Anne or Mary??

Answer 1

Anne. Anne. Anne.

Answer 2

You are quite a royalty kick...why?

Answer 3

I think he was interested in Ann, but he loved Mary like a child. That's why when he found out how conniving Ann was, he was really rough with her. She would not have become executed, Mary, because she was not as focused on power and he had no reason to hate her. Henry VIII felt threatened by Ann.

Answer 4

We know very little about henry's relationship with Mary.  It is not known whether he loved her, or whether she was just a passing fancy.  I think he had probably already taken a fancy to her before she married.

I don't know whether I would call Anne 'conniving' exactly.  She certainly held out for marriage, but then that was what well-brought up girls were supposed to do in those days.  Holding out against the King certainly took nerve, but at first at least she cannot have known that he would go so far as to try and discard Catherine for her.

We don't really know enough about Mary to know whether she was conniving or not, but I would think probably not.

Answer 5

Anne Boleyn is one of the most famous queens in English history, though she ruled for just three years.  The daughter of an ambitious knight and niece of the duke of Norfolk, Anne spent her adolescence in France.  When she returned to England, her wit and style were her greatest charms.  She had a circle of admirers and became secretly engaged to Henry Percy.  She also entered the service of Katharine of Aragon.  But she soon caught the eye of Henry VIII.  He ordered Percy from court and tried to make Anne his mistress.  She refused.  Her sister, Mary, had been the king's mistress and gained little from it but scandal.  Her hopes with Percy dashed, Anne demanded that the king marry her.  She waited nearly seven years for Henry to obtain an annulment.  It finally took an irrevocable breach with the Holy See before they wed in 1533.  But she was unable to give Henry the son he desperately needed and their marriage ended tragically for Anne.  She was executed on patently false charges of witchcraft, incest and adultery on 19 May 1536.  Her daughter, Elizabeth, would become England's greatest queen.

Answer 6

He loved Anne.

Historically, Mary was a big fat ho.

Be careful not to mix up movie-sisters with historical-sisters.