Position:Home>History> Why did Anne Boleyn's father encourage her to seduce the king?

He wanted his daughter to seduce the king for power, land and title!. In that time women were not able to have power, land or title without inhertiting it or through their family or husbands!. Whoever was in the kings bed had the kings favor!. He wanted Ann to seduce the king so she would become pregnant with his child!. Henry only had one living female child ( Mary) and he was desperate for a son to secure the throne and the queen wasn't able to provide a living heir!. The Boleyn's knew that if their daughter could produce a male heir then they would hold the king in their hands!. People who lived at court only cared for wealth, title , and power it was always a status compitition with every family and women were only good for breeding, and sex!. His daughter's were just tools for his own demise!. It was just how it was in that time!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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Anne's father was already established at the Royal Court well before Henry became King in 1509!. Even his marriage to the well-connected Lady Elizabeth Howard seemed to work to his advantage, enhancing his ruthless ambitions!.
Their three children, George, Mary and Anne, were all well-educated and formed part of their father's grand master plan to attain greater power and status!. Anne, the youngest of the sisters, was extremely close to her brother George but possibly had a more distant relationship with her elder sister Mary, exacerbated by the fact that the latter became a discarded mistress of Henry!.
Anne's father, didn't want another "scandal" in the family ! He knew that the King was courting his daughter Anne so he asked her to do the "impossible" to make him marry her!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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You are mistaken!. He went for her!. She said she maight not be good enough to be his queen, but she was too good to be his whore!. She played him like a fish but she only let him have it and got up the duff in the most crucial point of the passage of the divorce!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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He would the grandfather of the future king if she had had a son which would make him very powerful!. Www@QuestionHome@Com

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money, land , power and status for her and her familyWww@QuestionHome@Com

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Like most things in life , power and money !! Www@QuestionHome@Com

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Women were just pawns in the mens power games back then!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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Honey, that was a movie!. History might be different!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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Thomas Boleyn was a very amibitious man, and when Henry started showing an interest in Anne, he would probably not have been displeased!. On the other hand, he would probably have hoped that Anne would make a good marriage, and being a King's mistress was not necessarily the destiny he had in mind for her!. But he certainly would not have dared to obstruct the King's wooing of Anne, the King was far too powerful, and Thomas Boleyn was only an ordinary gentleman, not a great and powerful nobleman!.

Once Thomas Boleyn grasped that there might actually be a chance that Anne could become Queen, he would probably have been eager to promote the affair, and whether Anne became the King's mistress or his Queen, I fear that self-interest was probably uppermost in Thomas Boleyn's mind!.

Anne herself held out for marriage, either through virtue or ambition, or perhaps a mixture of both!. She may not have been in love with Henry, but she probably found him attractive, he was the most powerful man in england after all, and many women do find power an attractive quality in a man!. also I think at that time he had not yet become as fat and bloated and repulsive as he was later!.

And as far as we know, she didn't have anyone else in mind as a husband or lover at that time!. Her bethrothal to Henry Percy had been broken up because she was not a grand enough match for the Percys!. So when Henry started showing an interest in her, she probably thought she might as well go for it, like her father, she was an ambitious person!.

And once Anne fell out of favour and was imprisoned in the Tower, Thomas Boleyn would have been afraid to do anything to try and help her, or his son George, who was also accused of treason!. Self-preservation was probably uppermost in this thoughts!. and although he lost his lucrative post as Lord Privy Seal and all his lands in Ireland after the fall of his daughter, so one can only draw the conclusion that he must have continued to ingratiate himself with the King, rather than making any attempt to save his children!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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