Addicted to the Past--Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn

Today in history, January 25, 1533, King Henry VIII of England and Anne Boleyn were secretly married.  Now I know some of us have often  wished we could go back and change a choice we made...whether it be who we married or some other path taken.  I know I do have! LOL! So it only makes sense that Anne Boleyn was thinking the same thing just a few years after the fateful day she married Henry. 

So what made Anne finally give up the ghost and marry Henry after resisting him for so long.  Pressure from her family, her own ambition to be queen, and I suppose she, like so many women, actually believed that Henry was over the moon for her.  Perhaps she should have taken a clue from how easily Henry got rid of his first wife, Katherine of Aragon, even if he didn't have her executed.  He probably would have if not for fear of repercussions from her nephew, Emperor Charles V.

Although I regret that Anne was wrongly dispatched by the king, I am thankful for this day because without the union of Henry and Anne the world would never have known one of the greatest monarchs in history, Elizabeth I of England.  So really, Anne won in the end.  Good for her!