So, I watched the movie, The Other Boleyn Girl, yesterday and I enjoyed it. Being the nerd (I prefer the word intellectual 
) that I am, I’m going to do some research and to verify the historical contents of the movie. The life of King Henry the 8th is interesting. I think King Henry (according to the movie) was as pompous, selfish, womanizing, donkey-hole.
Disappointed at the birth of only daughters, he married one woman after the other in his quest for the birth of a son, or heir to the throne. Other times, he didn’t marry the woman at all, it was purely lust. The ironic thing is that the ONLY woman who produced a son for him…he never married her. So that son was illegitimate and couldn’t ever be heir to the throne. This woman was named Mary Boelyn (Anne Boelyn’s sister). Shocking isn’t it? Anyhow, Anne starting putting the moves on King Henry. The King only wanted to sleep with Anne and her teasing and playing hard to get was a novel concept to him (as no other woman had ever tried it) and that just drove him wild with desire. He wanted to “have her” and she placed a condition that he could “have her” if only he married her.
TO fulfill the condition, Henry the Horrible, got rid of his one and only wife Catherine. Yes, Anne was wicked. But she paid a heavy price after marrying the king. See, she gave birth to a daughter and that turned King Henry off toward her. Anne became pregnant again but had a miscarriage. She was so afraid that the King would kill her if he found out about the miscarriage that she turned to her OWN BROTHER to make her pregnant. Yes, that’s right! WHAT GOOD IS DRAMA WITHOUT INCEST? Well, thankfully, they NEVER did anything. But the brother’s wife thought he had slept with his sister…so she reported him to the King. THe brother was beheaded…although he was innocent. Anne Boelyn was charged with incest and other crimes against the King and court. Although she was innocent, she was found guilty and accepted the convictions. She accepted the fate of being beheaded. It was SAAAD! But what goes around comes around.
Anyhoo, here’s another piece of IRONY. King Henry was angry that Anne produced a daugther. And Anne tried hard to get pregnant so she could have a son. She lost her life in the process. Henry was so afraid that he would have nobody to rule the kingdom after his death…but he was WRONG!!!
Anne’s daughter Elizabeth I became queen of England. I wonder if Henry only knew how the future turned out…he’d take his sword and kill himself for being such an infuriating nauseating FOOL!!!
And here’s another interesting tidbit. Most of England follows the Anglican sect of Christianity. Anglicanism, I believe, was founded by King Henry. The pope didn’t allow Henry to get a divorce because it was against the Catholic Church. So Henry broke from it and started his own church…which did allow divorce…the Anglican Church! See what I mean? What a Donkey-hole.
And here’s yet another interesting fact. Islam is the only religion that allows divorce. Christianity and Judaism don’t…at least not before the religious texts were tampered with…and King Henry started a new trend. And in Hinduism, I believe their is no word for “divorce” in their language. While divorce is a distasteful option for many…Alhumdolillah our religion allows us the option of divorce rather than endure abuse and other intolerable conditions. Go Islam!
