Attempting To Save The Tudor-Name And Dynasty

It's obvious to me that Anne Boleyn didn't believe that her husband, the king, Henry VIII, was going through with his intentions to have her executed for "adultery", "incest", etc. that she most probably didn't commit. When waiting for the executioner she kept looking for "someone" which most likely would be a messenger that Henry VIII wouldn't go through with the executioner. That means that on that fatal day, May 18, 1536, she was still hoping that she might be saved by a pardon which never came. Hoping against hope is a very special kind of torture, and she endured it in a notable fashion, actually laughing when the time schedule of the execution was botched. Of course, that laughter wasn't out of merriment, but shock at the situation where she, the Queen, was to be slaughtered by the man who had been totally besotted with her, but who now wanted to get rid of her so that he could marry his pregnant mistress, Jane Seymour: All for the male, royal heir he was so desperate for!

The day before the execution she had been told to "prepare her soul for death". Just like Marie Antoinette of France, who was sent to the guillotine on October 16, 1793, she kept her dignity, didn't fight the executioner or try to escape on the scaffold like e.g. the king's cousin, Margaret Pole. The execution of this elderly relative of the King was totally botched up and must have been a nightmare not only to her, but to the executioner. But then she and her son had resisted his changing the religion of England to be able to marry Anne Boleyn "who was going to save the Tudor-dynasty by giving him that much longed for son" so .... 

Margaret Pole

Henry's desperate wish for that male heir who might save the Tudor-dynasty made him cruel and vicious. His two daughters, Mary and Elizabeth, weren't even married off at an early age as was usual with royalty, most probably because they would not save the Tudor-name, only the bloodline. If married they would still belong to the house of Tudor, but they would not keep the name alive, and that meant a lot to a new dynasty which this was. 

Jane Seymour

After the execution of Anne Boleyn the king married Jane Seymour, and - lo and behold - she gave him the son he longed for: Edward who became Edward VI after his death. As to Jane Seymour she died from postnatal complications, a couple of weeks after the birth of her son, but she was the only one of Henry's many wives who received the honor of a queen's funeral, and she was buried alongside him. 

Henry took for granted that he himself would have a splendid burial site, but no, he didn't so there his lies in his badly damaged coffin with a small coffin on top of it which contains one of the many dead princes and princesses of the dynasty to follow his own: The Stuarts. They were of the Tudor bloodline, but didn't represent the dynasty as such, and he would have grieved to see that this was what it all came to in the end. 

 

Wikipedia 

https://www.hrp.org.uk/blog/the-extraordinary-life-and-death-of-lady-margaret-pole-countess-of-salisbury/#:~:text=Margaret%20Pole%27s%20execution%20came%20on,blows%20to%20sever%20her%20head.