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32 | <img border="0" src="anne2.jpg" alt="portrait of Anne Boleyn" align="left" width="139" height="194">This
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33 | account of Anne Boleyn's coronation was written by the Tudor chronicler
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34 | Edward Hall.</font><p>
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35 | <font size="2">Henry only provided coronations for his first two wives.
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36 | Katharine of Aragon shared his coronation in 1509; Anne's lavish ceremony
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37 | took place on 29 May 1533. She would be executed almost exactly three
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38 | years later.</font><p>
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39 | <font size="2">The coronation was not a success, despite its expense.
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40 | Anne was not popular. Insults were shouted; mocking laughter was
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41 | heard. Anne was already two months pregnant with the future Queen
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42 | Elizabeth I. This undoubtedly hastened her secret marriage and
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43 | coronation. Henry VIII wanted no one to doubt the legitimacy of his
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44 | son or the nobility of his parentage.</font></td>
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48 | On
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49 | Thursday 29 May, Lady Anne, marquess of Pembroke, was received as queen
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50 | of England by all the lords of England. And the mayor and aldermen,
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51 | with all the guilds of the City of London, went to Greenwich in their barges
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52 | after the best fashion, with also a barge of bachelors of the mayor's guild
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53 | richly hung with cloth of gold with a great number to wait on her.
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54 | And so all the lords with the mayor and all the guilds of London brought
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55 | her by water from Greenwich to the Tower of London, and there the king's
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56 | grace received her as she landed, and then over a thousand guns were fired
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57 | at the Tower, and others were fired at Limehouse, and on other ships lying
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58 | in the Thames. </p>
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60 | <p>And on Saturday, the last day of May, she rode from the Tower of London
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61 | through the City with a goodly company of lords, knights and gentlemen,
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62 | with all the peers of the realm, richly appareled. She herself rode
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63 | in a rich chariot covered with cloth of silver, and a rich canopy of cloth
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64 | of silver borne over her head by the four Lords of the Ports, in gowns
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65 | of scarlet, followed by four richly hung chariots of ladies; and also several
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66 | other ladies and gentlewoman riding on horseback, all in gowns made of
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67 | crimson velvet. And there were various pageant made on scaffolds
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68 | in the city; and all the guilds were standing in their liveries, every
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69 | one in order, the mayor and aldermen standing in Cheapside. And when
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70 | she came before them the Recorder of London made a goodly presentation
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71 | to her, and then the mayor gave her a purse of cloth of fold with a thousand
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72 | marks of angel nobles in it, as a present from the whole of the city; and
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73 | so the lords brought her to the palace of Westminster and left her there
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74 | that night.
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75 | <p>On 1 June Queen Anne was brought from Westminster Hall to St Peter's
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76 | Abbey in procession, with all the monks of Westminster going in rich copes
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77 | of gold, with thirteen mitred abbots; and after them all the king's chapel
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78 | in rich copes with four bishops and two mitred archbishops, and all the
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79 | lords going in their parliament robes, and the crown borne before her by
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80 | the duke of Suffolk, and her two sceptres by two earls, and she herself
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81 | going under a rich canopy of cloth of gold, dressed in a kirtle of crimson
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82 | velvet decorated with ermine, and a robe of purple velvet decorated with
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83 | ermine over that, and a rich coronet with a cap of pearls and stones on
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84 | her head; and the old duchess of Norfolk carrying her train in a robe of
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85 | scarlet with a coronet of gold on her cap, and Lord Burgh, the queen's
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86 | Chamberlain, supporting the train in the middle.
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87 | <p>After her followed ten ladies in robes of scarlet trimmed with ermine
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88 | and round coronets of gold on their heads; and next after them all the
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89 | queen's maids in gowns of scarlet edged with white Baltic fur. And
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90 | so she was brought to St Peter's church at Westminster, and there set in
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91 | her high royal seat, which was made on a high platform before the altar.
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92 | And there she was anointed and crowned queen of England by the archbishop
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93 | of Canterbury and the archbishop of York, and so sat, crowned, in her royal
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94 | seat all through the mass, and she offered at the said mass. And
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95 | when the mass was done they left, every man in his order, to Westminster
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96 | Hall, she still going under the canopy, crowned, with two sceptres in her
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97 | hands, my Lord Wiltshire her father, and Lord Talbot leading her, and so
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98 | dined there; and there was made the most honourable feast that has been
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99 | seen.
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100 | <p>The great hall at Westminster was richly hung with rich cloth of Arras,
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101 | and a table was set at the upper end of the hall, going up twelve steps,
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102 | where the queen dined; and a rich cloth of estate hung over her head.
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103 | There were also four other tables along the hall; and it was railed on
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104 | every side, from the high dais in Westminster Hall to the platform in the
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105 | church in the abbey.
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106 | <p>And when she went to church to her coronation there was a striped blue
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107 | cloth spread from the high dais of the king's bench to the high altar of
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108 | Westminster on which she went.
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109 | <p>And when the queen's Grace had washed her hands, then came the duke
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110 | of Suffolk, high constable for that day and steward of the feast, riding
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111 | on horseback, richly dressed and decorated, and with him, also riding on
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112 | horseback, Lord William Howard as deputy for the duke of Norfolk in his
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113 | office of marshall of England, and there came the queen's service followed
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114 | by the archbishop's with a certain space between, which was all borne by
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115 | knights; the archbishop sitting at the queen's board, at the end on her
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116 | left hand. The earl of Sussex was sewer, earl of Essex carver, earl
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117 | of Derby cup bearer, earl of Arundel butler, Viscount Lisle panter, and
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118 | Lord Grey almoner.
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121 | <font size="2">to the Anne
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122 | Boleyn website</font></a></p>
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