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Anne Boleyn

Navalny Jones

Society & Culture

Frequency: 1 episode/4d. Total Eps: 14

They called Anne Boleyn the Great Whore. It is a Bible thing. Great Whore is a title from the Book of Revelation, and it is "end of the world" stuff.

An apocalyptic title is overdoing it a bit. They exaggerated the threat Anne posed. Or has history grossly underestimated Anne Boleyn?

Was Anne an existential threat to the Catholic religion and what is known as Abrahamic faith?

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I must thank historians Lucy Worsley, Suzannah Lipscombe and Tracy Borman

for introducing Anne Boleyn to me. I must thank William Shakespeare for humanism. I must thank Elizabeth I for Shakespeare.

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Anne Boleyn and the Big Bang

Season 1 · Episode 14

Tuesday, April 22, 2025 • Duration 09:54

Anne Boleyn threatened the feudal system where lords owned people as property. She posed an existential threat to Lord Thomas Cromwell and 27 other lords of England. Lord Cromwell seized control of the Church of England—an institution Anne herself helped establish—he systematically dismantled her reputation and branded her the Great Whore, an apocalyptic title from the Book of Revelation. This calculated character assassination worked for centuries.

In 1949 it finally became possible to restore Anne Boleyn’s good name. Fred Hoyle's introduction of the "Big Bang" metaphor in 1949 created public awareness of new cosmology. This podcast explores how the universe's potential contraction—the "Big Crunch"—opens doors to contemplating a universe that began with just one particle. This minimalist beginning suggests a universe where nothing existed outside of the single particle and its source. It is a moment in time just ahead of the hot dense primordial soup of matter found in the classic Big Bang metaphor.

The Boleyn humanist theory proposes that far from being a lost particle in this universe made of particles the first particle localized in Jesus of Nazareth. It is an alternative universe and one in which there is no such thing as spirit.

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The Anne Boleyn Collective

Season 1 · Episode 14

Sunday, April 20, 2025 • Duration 16:00

Drawing on historical sources like Pliny, Lucian, Tacitus, and Josephus, we trace Anne's religious thinking back to early Christian humanism. When Anne said "Lord Jesus, receive my soul" at her execution, she wasn't speaking of a future resurrection but addressing Jesus "in real time"—a radical departure from medieval Catholic doctrine. Archbishop Thomas Cranmer recognized her religious significance when he declared, "She who has been the Queen of England upon earth will today become a Queen in heaven."

Anne Boleyn was a progressive who helped reshape England's religious landscape before being vilified as "the Great Whore" and executed in 1536. Her story continues to resonate across the centuries.

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The Stolen Years of Henry VIII & Anne Boleyn

Season 1 · Episode 13

Saturday, April 12, 2025 • Duration 14:04

This podcast is about the battle for the soul of England. Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn transformed England from a Catholic country to a Protestant one. Their relationship spanned fourteen years. For ten years they were inseparable.

Following her execution on May 19, 1536, Anne was ex-communicated by the Church of England. People were no longer free to talk about Anne but not talking about Anne meant not talking about Henry because they had been as one. The historical gaps in Henry VIII's story aren't accidents but calculated omissions designed to control the narrative. Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn and the narrative fell into the hands of Thomas Cromwell and the English aristocracy. 28 lords and noblemen of England to be precise.

It was not just Anne erased from history. With 14 years of Anne Boleyn’s life there was included 14 years of Henry VIII’s life which was deliberately expunged from historical records.

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by William Shakespeare

Season 1 · Episode 12

Wednesday, April 9, 2025 • Duration 13:26

Every great story has hidden beginnings, and Shakespeare's rise from obscurity to literary immortality is no exception. In 1592, the Lord Chamberlain's Men were at a crossroads—financially stable but creatively paralyzed by fear of Elizabethan England's religious authorities. Enter William Shakespeare, a Catholic from Stratford-upon-Avon seeking fortune in London, initially hired merely as a stagehand among Oxford and Cambridge graduates.

What happened next transformed theatre forever. When colleagues jokingly nicknamed him "Spearshake," they unwittingly invoked Athena, the goddess of war and wisdom.

Beyond the divine approval from Athena there was a war queen in need of divine help. Queen Elizabeth sought ways to restore her mother Anne Boleyn's erased legacy without directly challenging religious orthodoxy. Shakespeare—simultaneously spear, helmet, shield, and chariot of Athena—became the vessel through which dangerous stories could safely be told. When Shakespeare drank, friends claimed he channeled extraordinary creativity. Whether supernatural inspiration or creative collaboration with the University Wits, the result was revolutionary—art that subtly challenged the status quo while appearing to conform to it.

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Anne Boleyn in the U.S.A.

Season 1 · Episode 11

Friday, April 4, 2025 • Duration 11:48

The popular American conception of Anne as a temptress completely misses the truth revealed by her daughter Elizabeth I. When Elizabeth became Queen, she commissioned a family tree honoring her mother as "the most gracious Princess Lady Anne." This wasn't mere sentiment—when Anne emerged internationally in 1526, it was as Princess Anne Boleyn. My book uses Elizabeth's perspective as a primary source to reconstruct the authentic story of this remarkable woman whose humanist philosophy, had it flourished, could have fundamentally changed America's founding principles and religious character.

Anne Boleyn wasn't merely Henry VIII's second wife but history's greatest humanist—a philosopher who rejected spirit and the religions which come with it. Anne is the greatest because she was able to accommodate Jesus of Nazareth in a humanist scheme. Her concept of Jesus was not true to the Bible. Her Jesus was true to history. We do not know how far she got in her revision of the gospels but according to Elizabeth she completed the task before it was all destroyed, and she was erased.

America came close to an alternative destiny with Anne Boleyn in a place of honour in her consciousness.

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New Songs

Season 1 · Episode 10

Monday, March 31, 2025 • Duration 19:53

1) Covergirl

2) The Dance

3) Divided We Fall

4) She Punk

5) Superman

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A Love Story (Part 2)

Season 1 · Episode 9

Sunday, March 30, 2025 • Duration 16:50

A giant horse falls on Henry VIII, and England is forever changed—not because he died, but because of what returned in his place. This extraordinary exploration of Tudor history suggests that when the 44-year-old king suffered a catastrophic riding accident on January 24, 1536, his soul departed while his concussed body became a puppet for the manipulative Thomas Cromwell.

At the heart of this tale stands Anne Boleyn, not merely as Henry's infamous second wife, but as England's first true humanist. Sent away at age five and raised under the tutelage of Margaret of Austria, Anne emerged as a "child genius" and "a princess by design." Her progressive humanist philosophy—deemed witchcraft by the Catholic establishment—set her on a collision course with the medieval institutions that dominated Tudor England. The narrative reimagines their first meeting at a masked ball where Henry went incognito as "Romeo" to meet the teenage Anne, who would become his intellectual challenger and eventually his queen.

The struggle between Henry's humanist inclinations and his Catholic conditioning represents the fundamental challenge faced by Renaissance monarchs caught between medieval tradition and modern thinking. How much of history might be explained if we consider that the Henry who executed Anne Boleyn wasn't truly Henry at all?

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A Love Story (Part 1)

Season 1 · Episode 8

Wednesday, March 26, 2025 • Duration 12:34

Anne Boleyn's remarkable story transcends the typical Tudor narrative of a queen who lost her head. She was systematically erased from history—her portraits destroyed, her letters burned, her emblems dismantled. Thomas Cromwell labeled her "The Great Whore" and worked tirelessly to remove her from historical memory. He succeeded.

Then came Elizabeth to the throne.

The fascinating dimensions of Anne and Henry's relationship reveal parallels to Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. Anne initially harbored intense hatred toward Henry for his callous treatment of her sister Mary Boleyn. Returning from France as the "little darling of Europe's progressive humanists," Anne was determined to deliver "an almighty reprimand" to the king. Henry, aware of her contempt, devised a plan to meet Anne incognito—hoping to present his side of the story before her disgust became insurmountable.

Their unexpected love story emerged from this foundation of antagonism, creating one of history's most consequential and complicated romances.

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The Great Whore Revisited

Season 1 · Episode 7

Saturday, March 22, 2025 • Duration 29:44

I was a guest on the Stacey Chillemi podcast recently. I had a great time and it helped me focus on Anne Boleyn even more sharply.

18 year old Anne was known as the king's whore and the king's concubine from 1526 onwards. She was not known as the Great Whore till after her death in 1536.

The Great Whore, well that's another story.

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Humanism

Season 1 · Episode 6

Thursday, March 20, 2025 • Duration 15:02

Anne Boleyn was an amazing human being. She was given an education that money could not buy. She was educated to be what she became and that was a thought leader and a conduit for humanism. The Renaissance gave us Michelangelo who painted God in the form of a man. The Renaissance gave us Anne Boleyn who understood what it meant for God to be a man.

Anne understood the selfish gene in terms of the selfish nature of men and women. She understood selfish is not a dirty word because it is the way we are made. It is not immoral or a sin to be selfish, it is natural.

Anne was a Christian and so was Henry and selfish had to be balanced with religious ambition and social instinct. Anne was selfish for falling in love with a married man. Henry VIII was selfish for wanting a male heir. Neither was more selfish than when it came to a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.

Selfishness and not love was the relationship between Jesus Christ and the Tudor family of Anne, Henry and Elizabeth 1.

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