Tower of London with Letter from Anne Boleyn Wood Print

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A letter written by the imprisoned Queen Anne Boleyn to her king, Henry VIII, imploring him to release her from the Tower of London. He refused, and she was infamously beheaded and is buried in the chapel at the Tower.
I took the photo on a warm autumn evening, under a full moon.

Partial letter:
� Sir, your Grace�s displeasure, and my Imprisonment are Things so strange unto me, as what to Write, or what to Excuse, I am altogether ignorant; whereas you sent unto me (willing me to confess a Truth, and so obtain your Favour) by such a one, whom you know to be my ancient and professed Enemy; I no sooner received the Message by him, than I rightly conceived your Meaning; and if, as you say, confessing Truth indeed may procure my safety, I shall with all Willingness and Duty perform your Command.

But let not your Grace ever imagine that your poor Wife will ever be brought to acknowledge a Fault, where not so much as Thought thereof proceeded. And to s...

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