Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn
King Henry VIII originally courted Anne Boleyn’s sister Mary, but it was Anne who caught the English royal’s wandering eye — though she refused to be his mistress. She wanted to be Queen. Unfortunately for Anne, the temperamental King had another change of heart and ordered her execution in 1536. Henry VIII wrote Anne this letter in 1527:
“I beg to know expressly your intention touching the love between us. Necessity compels me to obtain this answer, having been more than a year wounded by the dart of love, and not yet sure whether I shall fail or find a place in your affection.”
Love Letters
- Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn
- Napoleon to His Wife Josephine
- Beethoven to His ‘Immortal Beloved’
- Winston Churchill to His Wife Clementine
- Charles Darwin to Emma Wedgwood
- Frida Kahlo to Diego Rivera
- Richard Burton to Elizabeth Taylor
- Ronald Reagan to Nancy Reagan
- Jerry Orbach to His Wife Elaine
- Noah to Allie, The Notebook
