Princess Diana's tragic similarity to Anne Boleyn revealed
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Both Diana and Anne married a king or future king, but they were actually the younger sister of someone they were originally seeing. What's more, both marriages failed and both died prematurely. Prince Charles originally met Diana through his sister Lady Sarah Spencer, later McCorquodale.
The couple had been courting for a while, but Charles called it off after a dispute over Sarah's comments to the press.
Sarah had told reporters that she would not marry Charles "if he were the garbage man or the king of England."
She also told them about her history of alcohol problems, how she had "thousands of boyfriends" and how she had started keeping a scrapbook of all the press clippings about her and the heir to the throne.
When she showed the article to Charles, she was furious.
She was Sarah's younger sister, Diana, whom Charles first met when she was 16, whom she would become his wife.
The fourth season of Netflix's The Crown featured her first meeting at Sarah's home, where a shy Diana impresses the nervous Charles.
Similarly, Henry VIII, who separated from the Roman Catholic Church to marry Anne Boleyn, originally had a relationship with his older sister Mary of his.
Maria, who was a maid of honor to Enrique's first wife, Catherine of Aragon, and married a wealthy courtier in 1520, became Enrique's mistress for a time.
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It was rumored that one or both of Mary's children were fathered by the King, although there is no evidence to support the argument that either of them was the King's biological child.
Anne returned to England from France in 1522 and soon joined the royal court as one of Catherine's bridesmaids.
She was very popular at court, although the sisters reportedly moved in different circles.
King Henry VIII was seeing Mary Boleyn before his sister Anne. (Image: GETTY)
When the king took an interest in Anne, she refused to become her lover, and by mid-1526 he was determined to marry her.
Her lust for Ana and her desire to have a legitimate child to protect her legacy cemented the idea that he should annul her marriage to Catalina de Aragón.
Anne finally married him in 1533.
This unusual love triangle between the King and the two sisters was portrayed in the 2008 film The Other Boleyn Girl.
Sadly, Diana and Anne's marriages ended up turning bitter, and their royal husbands sought pleasure elsewhere.
Charles and Diana struggled with the age gap and infidelity, especially Charles's feelings for Camilla Parker Bowles, now the Duchess of Cornwall.
Diana suffered from bulimia and depression and claimed that she had no help from anyone inside the Palace.
By 1986, Charles had started seeing Camilla again, while Diana also sought comfort in the arms of others, such as her riding instructor James Hewitt.
Their relationship was so deteriorated in 1992 that they separated and then divorced in 1996.
Meanwhile, in the reign of Henry VIII, the king worried that Anne Boleyn would not provide him with the son he desired.
After having her daughter Elizabeth, he had at least one miscarriage and possibly more.
Catalina de Aragón died in 1536 and around the same time Enrique began to woo Jane Seymour.
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He also began to say that Anne had tricked him into marrying by trickery or spells.
In the end, Henry, with the help of her trusted advisor Thomas Cromwell, accused Anne of adultery and she was sent to the Tower of London.
The final similarity between the two women is her tragic and untimely death.
Just a year after their divorce was finalized, Diana died in a car accident in a Paris underpass after her driver, who was three times over the legal limit for driving under the influence, sped to avoid the drivers. paparazzi.
Diana, her partner Dodi Fayed and her driver Henri Paul died, while her bodyguard survived the accident.
Diana, who was 36 when she died, left 15-year-old Prince William and 12-year-old Prince Harry.
Charles married Camilla seven and a half years later, in 2005, in a civil ceremony at Windsor Guildhall.
In Tudor times, Anne was arrested on May 2, 1536, and taken to the Tower of London by barge.
She was found guilty of adultery, incest and treason and was beheaded on May 19.
They also arrested several men accused of committing adultery with her, including a Flemish musician in her service named Mark Smeaton, three courtiers named Sir Henry Norris, Sir Francis Weston, Sir William Brereton and hers own brother George Boleyn.
All five were executed.
Two other courtiers were arrested but later acquitted.
Anne, who was between 28 and 35 when she died, left behind her two-year-old daughter who became Queen Elizabeth II, who reigned for 44 years.
Henry married Jane Seymour only 10 days after her execution.
