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Anne Boleyn's last secret

LATEST NEWS Anne Boleyn’s last secret Leanda de Lisle 30/04/2014 Why was the queen executed with a sword, rather than an axe? With his wife, Anne Boleyn, in the Tower, Henry VIII considered every detail of her coming death, poring over plans for the scaffold. As he did so he made a unique decision. Anne, alone among all victims of the Tudors, was to be beheaded with a sword and not the traditional axe. The question that has, until now, remained unanswered is — why?

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