The Princesss Personalized Wedding Ring
Henry’s many wives (six in total) would each be assigned a royal motto. “Bound to Obery and Serve” was handed to Jane Seymour, while “No Other Will but His” belonged to Catherine Howard. You can be sure that Anne would get a similarly possessive motto: “God Send Me Well to Keep”, which was inscribed on her marriage ring. Quite the patriarchal set of commands, but women were often treated like property back then, after all.
The Princesss Personalized Wedding Ring
The marriage, for all it was worth, would not last long. When the annulment was finished, Anne would hand Henry his ring back with the aim of having it chopped in half. This was a metaphorical gesture that signified their split and the complete failure that their marriage ended in. By breaking the most maritally significant item, she was making a hard and incredibly clear point. This was quite a bold gesture for the time, especially coming from a woman.
The Underwhelming Wedding Night
Knowing that Henry and Anne shared little in the way of chemistry or mutual attraction, it comes as no surprise if their wedding night was nothing to write home about. For most couples today, a wedding night is an incredibly passionate and loving experience. Not so for the royally wedded, where Henry was fiercely turned off by Anne’s nudity that he was unable to complete the task at hand. Anne was not feeling the situation either, however.
The Underwhelming Wedding Night
The bitter king would be sadistically cruel when it came to his description of poor Anne. He was sad that she smelled ‘very evil’ due to how loose her breasts were. Henry was also under the impression that Anne was not a virgin. Plenty of criticism from the king, but what about his own faults? We know that he was heavily overweight and getting on in years, which led many historians to believe that he was impotent at this stage.
