6. Anne Boleyn
Anne Boleyn has been featured in several movies and TV shows, including the most recent The Other Boleyn Girl, Wolf Hall, and The Tudors. Nearly every depiction shows her as a manipulative temptress who convinces King Henry VIII to divorce his wife and marry her, instead. In real life, she wrote letters refusing to be his mistress, writing, “Your wife I cannot be… because you have a queen already. Your mistress I will not be.” And yet, the king still got what he wanted, and was alienated by the Catholic church as a result. After their marriage, she wrote that she was constantly harassed by other men in the kingdom. But in the movies, she is always depicted as a powerful, seductive, conniving woman who is more like a villain.
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