I'm the reincarnation of Anne Boleyn.....ask me anything.

[SiobhanClancy]

chop chop

[Dookus]

1. do you...

really have a third nipple?

[SiobhanClancy]

2. Not anymore!

I don't have any skin left to speak of. I used to have a little sixth finger...hardly more than an extra nail,really.



edited for the usual typo

[greatauntoftriplets]

3. Do you remember me from when....

...I visited your grave? It was April of 1990, the most recent time.

[SiobhanClancy]

4. Thanks for stopping by:)

Did you know that my cousin,Catherine Howard,is buried here too? She needs to be moved elsewhere...she really was guilty,you know:)

[roughsatori]

5. 3 questions for you Anne

1) Did you really have a large mole on your neck?

2) Did you have Elizabeth using the Lamaze Method?

3) When the permitted you to speak (to a small private coterie) before they chopped your head off why were you so polite?

[SiobhanClancy]

7. Well...

1) Did you really have a large mole on your neck?
Not so very large.

2) Did you have Elizabeth using the Lamaze Method?

No...in those days we took to our beds weeks ahead of the estimated time and just waited. We certainly believed in "natural childbirth",though

3) When the permitted you to speak (to a small private coterie) before they chopped your head off why were you so polite?

Execution etiquette required it,although you will recall that I said "If anyone would meddle with my cause,I require him to judge the best" Think about that,and I'm sure you'll see I was making a statement

[roughsatori]

9. Pardon my memory, you've refreshed it

Like the gracious saucy Lady I thought you were. Another question: Does it take much effort to be gracious and saucy at the same time?

[SiobhanClancy]

10. Not until...

you become headless...then it is a bit of a chore,but I can usually still manage it. Keep the old chin up,you know:)

[roughsatori]

11. LOL, thanks for your advice and time

[SiobhanClancy]

12. Most assuredly,dear heart..

It was my very great pleasure:)

[GregW]

6. When Henry asked you to "give him head"

Did you know he meant it literally?

[SiobhanClancy]

8. I should have known..

but my cousin Catherine REALLY should have known.

[flyingfish]

13. Serves you right for butting out Catherine of Aragon

chop!

[SiobhanClancy]

14. But,dear heart...

can you blame a girl for trying to get a head?:)

[Skittles]

15. I saw where you died

at the Tower of London. It was kinda sad.

[SiobhanClancy]

16. Very sad place...

too many died there..mostly innocent,but not all.(Did I mention my cousin,Catherine?)Strangely,when in my present-day incarnation I visited the Tower,a raven chased me near the site of the former scaffold.

[Skittles]

28. Catherine

the fifth wife? I believe she was only 17.

[SiobhanClancy]

31. She was very young

b1521? d 1542. Her story was a tragedy because of her youth and the hideous vengence of Henry. He discovered that she had been guilty of "immoral conduct" before the marriage,but was inclined to clemency until he found out that she had also been doing the same things after the marriage. Her "guilt" was admitted,and although I certainly think it's absurd,it was treason for the wife of the king to commit adultery. I believe this law remains on the books today over there,but certainly would not be implemented. Anne,on the other hand,was almost certainly innocent of all charges against her. Among Catherine Howard's last words on the scaffold,"I die a queen,but I would rather die the wife of Culpeper(her lover)"

[Bunny]

39. So, are you saying then that you did not have sex with your brother?

Wasn't that one of the rumors spread about you? And did you miscarry a "monstrous" fetus?

[SiobhanClancy]

40. No

My brother,George Boleyn,and four other gentleman of the court(one a musician)were accused of adultery with me. I don't know why they had to drag my dear brother into it(can we say OVERKILL?),although his very disturbed wife was certainly involved in some of these "rumours"

[Squeech]

17. How can you be reincarnated

if your ghost still walks the tower?

And as a ghost, do you manifest as a headless body, or as a floating (talking) head?

Is the notion that consciousness is seated in the brain something we scientific types assume, and did the culture of the 16th century believe that the soul was really more at home in the heart or liver? And how would this concept affect the dead Ann's self-image?

Or is this why you can be in two places at once: the archaic body-image in the tower, and the newfangled brain-image incarnate on the Democratic Underground?

[SiobhanClancy]

18. There are more things in heaven and earth..

than are dreamt of in your philosophies:) How's that for a non-answer?
If there can in fact be a continuation of consciousness after death,how can we know its limitations when we can't yet prove it's reality? Once one accepts the possibilty of any part of the conscious self going on,perhaps we might also consider that normal limits of the material world do not apply.
Just maybe:)

[dorktv]

19. Worthy of your daughter...

that answer is.

[SiobhanClancy]

20. Thanks be to you,sir

or madam:)My daughter was as worthy a prince(ss)as ever did live....and to think that great royal fool Henry wanted a boy.(Which he did get with that whey-faced cur Seymour)

[dorktv]

21. Actually I was named for your kid so I have a soft spot for

ya! Besides, how can anyone not love Gloriana?

[Squeech]

22. That's a good answer

Especially since you riposted with another serving of Shakespeare :-)

I played in a band that performed the English music hall number "With her Head Tucked Underneath her Arm." Although I know Boleyn's fate was tragic, exposure to that song lends her story a certain amount of drollery. Perhaps apologies are in order?

[SiobhanClancy]

23. No apologies,sir

no one loved revelry and entertainment more than I:)

BTW..nice meeting you on Saturday.

[Squeech]

24. And you

And I hope and trust it will not be another 400 years before we meet again!

[SiobhanClancy]

25. Indeed....

and who were YOU 400 years ago,when first we met?:)

[Squeech]

26. Probably a mud-soaked peasant

muttering in my beard about how a watery tart with a sword is no basis for supreme executive power. At which point I lost my head too.

[SiobhanClancy]

27. Sorry to say...

but it was most likely the rope for you.

Hang in there:)

[AlienGirl]

29. Okay...

Is it true that a decapitated head can still see and think for about twenty seconds after being decapitated? (Morbid question that has caused me dark speculation ever since I first read about it when I was eight or so...)

And what do you have to say to future generations of people with extra breasts?

Tucker

[SiobhanClancy]

33. Here is a link

about an experiment conducted in 1905

http://www.metaphor.dk/guillotine/Pages/30sec.html

As to the second matter,two words: custom lingerie:)

[Aristus]

30. Come clean with us, Anne

Didn't you really get your power from some moistened bitch who lobbed a scimitar at you?

[SiobhanClancy]

34. I got my power from three little words..

"Just say no"(for a few years,anyway)

[arwalden]

32. Did You Really Have Six Fingers??

What happened to the other four?

[SiobhanClancy]

35. LOL

an extra nail,really on one of my little fingers...plus nine more "normal" fingers. A sure sign of a witch,don't you know;)

[AlienGirl]

36. Wasn't it the bonus nipple

...that was the sure sign of a witch? Or were both considered equally witchy?

Tucker

[SiobhanClancy]

37. A bonus nipple

would be a sure and certain sign(for the incubus/succubus the suck from).In Anne's case(there being no such nipple)the rudimentary nail was used by some to point to as evidence that she was a witch.

[AlienGirl]

38. WHAT?!

She wasn't really among the ranks of the polymastic? Aww, shoot...

Tucker