Anne's coronation gown when she was crowned and when they celebrated also she was with child when she wore this gown also when she tried to be assassinated i love this dress all you have to do is look at it

this is the black and white dress and i love it the pattern colours style its all good!

This picture turned out better than I'd hoped . It was a challenge b/c the "Tudors" scene-maker didn't have any German styles, but I made do w/ what they had. I LOVED the jacket Anne was wearing. It's very pretty, the maroon, black, & pale yellow look gorgeous together. I think the skirt was a little too much, though. Maybe the costume would have looked better if the skirt had been made of solid maroon satin too? To match the top?

Once again, Anne wears another weird German hat. The strands of pearls they had in the game were a help, and since she was wearing a braid with it, I wanted to show that as well.

Anne wears this in a scene after Henry decides he's got no choice now but to marry the girl, seeing as he didn't want to make her brother [the Duke of Cleves] angry. So she's introduced at court as his new fiancee, & she gets to meet his children. It was especially cute when little Elizabeth gives her some flowers as a present

I almost didn't do this dress b/c it didn't look that great on Anne in the show. However, out of curiosity I watched a few videos about Henry first meeting Anne in the show, & she was wearing this when he came to see her early after her arrival in England.

The headdress was interesting b/c of the little loops of pearls that framed her face. The dress was a real challenge b/c the "Cranach" style (as it was called, based on the artist's paintings of German female nobility in that time period) was not available in the scene-maker. I finally came up w/ using roses, since 2 of the colors available worked for the costume.

The gold rope necklace she was wearing was interesting, because it was popular for female German royalty & nobility to wear. From what I saw in the Cranach portraits, how the ladies draped it around their necks varied.

It's not surprising that the ppl of Tudor England thought Anne was frumpy. I'm sorry to say that the popular fashions in the Low Countries were not figure-flattering on most ladies, and the real Anne of Cleves was no exception. The dress actually reminds me of a German peasant from a fairy-tale, rather than what a princess would wear.

For some reason, they cast an actress named Joss Stone to play Anne, & she's actually very beautiful. Doesn't make much sense to cast some1 like her to play a supposedly "ugly" wife of Henry VIII. But as I've said w/ Jane Seymour, "The Tudors" was all about the Historical Beauty Update.

I don't really think Anne of Cleves was as ugly in real life as some people made her out to be. The owner of "The Anne Boleyn Files" website actually did research on Henry VIII's other wives, including Anne of Cleves [link] From what she says, the portrait of Anne was a relatively accurate image of what the princess really looked like, it's just that, based on what the records say, Henry was really blaming her for his own shortcomings.

According to the records, Henry VIII was so eager to see his new bride, that he couldn't wait until she actually arrived at court to see her. So he, being a hopeless romantic, decided to follow an ancient chivalrous tradition of meeting her in disguise, & their love would be strong enough that she would recognize her future husband through the disguise. That didn't go over very well :S. [link]

So it's New Year's Day 1540, and Anne was at Rochester, watching bull-baiting out her window in the courtyard below. A servant of the king's comes in, saying that he's brought a present from his majesty for Anne. All of a sudden, this fat, smelly old servant she had been ignoring grabs her at the window, trying to kiss her. Anne is horrified & shoves him away, having no idea that this was King Henry VIII in disguise & she knew nothing of the English custom he was playing out.

Another account says that Henry (in disguise) remained in the background while wedding gifts were brought in for the princess. She didn't take any notice of the fat, middle-aged, smelly servant, which made the king mad, and he left without giving her even half of the wedding presents originally intended for her.

I don't think Henry really thought this whole thing through, or was even aware that Anne was ignorant of the custom. So instead, he's humiliated and decides he hates her, & calling her the ugly "Flanders Mare," even though everyone else liked her & thought she didn't look half bad.

On the tv show, Henry walks into a room where Anne is talking w/ her ladies, & they stop & stare at him. He walks over, gives her a rough kiss after a moment, & then stalks off angrily. (Poor Anne). It makes absolutely no sense that he'd call this version of Anne ugly, b/c she's not. After that he has a very Henry-esque tirade w/ his Councillors over the fact that he feels he's been duped in getting a "horse" of a bride.

This is the Anne of Cleves the "Tudors" tv show depicted. I found it fascinating that she was 1 of the only characters w/ historically accurate clothes for the time, rofl. Guess the costume designers figured that since most ppl don't know about 16th century German & Low Country fashions (unless you're actually from those places & like Renaissance art), that it was okay to use them for the show. Plus they look kinda bizarre compared to the English Tudor court clothes.

I read on the "Tudors" wiki that Anne never technically wears this dress on the show. You just see it in her portrait, tho they got some really good pictures of the costume nevertheless. It's an interesting contrast to the famous portrait of her in real life; b/c she's wearing green in this version, compared to the famous red gown she has in the real painting. The dress was relatively easy in the game, & the 1 in the pictures actually looks pretty . There weren't any vertical stripes available, so I used the wavy leaf pattern & it turned out ok.

The headdress is especially bizarre. It either reminds me of a baker's hat, or she's wearing a white jeweled flower pot on her head. It was the hardest part of this picture b/c I had to make it almost entirely out of pearls. However, it was a huge help that the game had 2 straight, vertical strings of pearls available in the beads menu, so I just used the larger 1 for around her head. I think what makes the hat look so strange is the fact that it hides her hair in the front. On the other hand, I saw a side-view of it in the behind-the-scenes pictures, and it shows she's wearing a low hair bun. I'm guessing the headdress is actually flexible enough to place on the front of her head & secure in the back w/ either ties or hooks.

On Doll-Divine this image of Anne got 1 Crown for Pretty, 1 for Accurate, & 1 for Intricate.

Here's the final version of Anne's coronation costume. I loved the crown they used, b/c it's the exact same costume piece they used for Yvaine in "Stardust," when she & Tristan were crowned King & Queen of Stormhold It's also a pretty crown, w/ rubies & gold leaves on top.

It's interesting to note that in real life, Catherine of Aragon & Anne Boleyn were the only 2 of Henry's wives to have formal coronation ceremonies. After Anne's beheading, & even with Jane Seymour, Henry was cautious about each of his wives in terms of making them each Queen.

Anne was also beheaded nearly 3 years to the DAY of her coronation ceremony.

This outfit looks like fun to wear while horseback-riding. Like her tan riding dress, I had to add a hat & feathers using beads, b/c the outfit just didn't look complete without it. The hat had a black lace veil for the face, but I couldn't really achieve it with beads, so I left it off. This picture might have been perfect if I could have photo-shopped a horse in the background, but I don't have an art program that can do that.

The image has already gotten 1 crown for intricate on Doll-Divine.

Again, this dress was recycled from 2 other movies about Queen Elizabeth, just like the tan riding dress.

I am somewhat bothered by how, in the images, Anne is shown riding the her horse like a man. That would have been EXTREMELY unladylike in the 1500s. It also ruins the effect the dress was supposed to show off. Side-saddle would have given a better look to both her and her outfit. Anne Boleyn may have been a controversial person, but that didn't mean she didn't know how to ride horses in those days.

Yet another Anne Boleyn costume that "Tudors" fans will recognize. By itself, it's a beautiful dress. Blue is my fave color, & the gold over-skirt really sets it off, though it doesn't really match the gown itself. It's almost as if somebody attached it at the last minute.

I didn't notice this until recently. Apparently the costume designers worked an extremely subtle symbol into this gown. I read in Eric Ives' book, "The Life & Death of Anne Boleyn," that Anne & Henry actually had a secret code of symbols between them, something that was embroidered into much of Anne's trappings as well as being featured on frescoes & said to be found in secret notes between them. It was the Acorn & the Honeysuckle. The acorn was Henry, & the honeysuckle flower was Anne, and the design shows them growing out of a single plant, just like the inter-twining of their love relationship. If you look at Anne's stomacher, you can see the flowers & acorns embroidered into it . Very clever on the costume designers' part. Too bad they didn't try that clever stuff on other costumes in this series.

From a historical perspective, such a gown would have been impossible to make b/c they lacked the dyeing technique to achieve that shade of aqua blue. The dress also (like nearly all the dresses in this series) lacks the well-known bell sleeves that most Tudor ladies had on their costumes.

I saw a video with Anne wearing this dress and upstaging Cardinal Wolsey, Henry VIII's closest adviser & friend at the time. It's been well-documented that Anne and him were rivals, due to the fact that he was the biggest obstacle to her getting married to the king & removing Catherine from the picture. In some novelizations, she blames him for blabbing to her father about her secret marriage to Henry Percy.

In the video, she at first is dismissed by the Cardinal, who wonders what a "silly girl like her" would want with the king. He comes in a day or so later & sees that same "silly girl" in the King's presence, acting like a Queen and being treated as an equal. Anne's wearing the pale blue gown, though I would have to agree w/ the commentators on the wiki. She was wearing this really cheap-looking headdress that was not necessary to complete the outfit at all. It's as if she grabbed it on the way to the king's chambers and thought to herself "this should make me look especially like a queen for that stupid cardinal."

Personally, I think they chose an actor who was much too thin to play Wolsey. I like him b/c he played Dr. Grant on "Jurassic Park," and he was the star of the "Merlin" miniseries. The real Cardinal Wolsey was not very attractive; he had a nose the could have punctured the Titanic and must have weighed 300 lbs. (Take a look at paintings of him if u don't believe me).

The outfits all the ladies (including Anne) wore in the pageant scene looked kind of bizarre. They looked across between burlesque dancers & ballerinas. A commentator on the wiki even said that the dresses looked more like underwear than costumes for a public spectacle like that. The gold crowns the girls wore looked especially silly. Though it is kind of romantic how Henry & Anne met in that scene.

Henry VIII was known to write pageants & star in them. I think the term "mummery" applies there, but I'm not sure. If there is a Renaissance fan who knows more, pls speak up. Anyway, today Henry would have been like a rock star who wrote, directed, produced, & starred in his own pageants. (At least, when he was young, & not quite insane yet).

This pageant actually did happen, and Anne was in it, but she and the King didn't really meet face-to-face then. Henry noticed Anne a few years later. It was Anne's first appearance at the Tudor court after her return from France. Also, the ladies probably wore white versions of the famous Tudor gowns we know, rather than the crazy underwear tutus.

The account I found of what really happened can be found here:

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Maybe I can do some pageant pictures with comparisons b/w the show & what the historical account says *hmmmm....*

I had some difficulty choosing a hairdo for this dress b/c the photos from the wiki showed the Queen wearing the costume in several scenes. So I chose the one I liked most

One of the easier gowns to make on the Scene-Maker, though I'm starting to wonder what it is with Joan Bergin & straight, long sleeves. Does she have some kind of allergy to bell-shaped sleeves or something?