{"id":36,"date":"2005-04-02T19:17:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-02T19:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/2005\/04\/02\/a-pardon-for-anne-boleyn\/"},"modified":"2023-05-23T10:38:17","modified_gmt":"2023-05-23T15:38:17","slug":"a-pardon-for-anne-boleyn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/2005\/04\/02\/a-pardon-for-anne-boleyn\/","title":{"rendered":"A Pardon for Anne Boleyn?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060427125907\/http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/main.jhtml?xml=\/news\/2005\/04\/01\/nanne01.xml&#038;sSheet=\/news\/2005\/04\/01\/ixhome.html\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener\">Home Office is asked to pardon Anne Boleyn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Although this story was printed on April 1st, at least the BBC is saying that it wasn&#8217;t an April Fools prank.<\/p>\n<p>The petition to have Anne declared innocent of the crimes that resulted in her execution comes from an 85-year-old survivor of the Battle of Britain who has been a life-long amateur historian. He is also requesting her reburial in Westminster Abbey,  alongside her daughter, Queen Elizabeth I.<\/p>\n<p>[Comments are closed on older posts. If you wish to make a comment, please contact Lara via the link in the sidebar.] <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Home Office is asked to pardon Anne Boleyn Although this story was printed on April 1st, at least the BBC is saying that it wasn&#8217;t an April Fools prank. The petition to have Anne declared innocent of the crimes that resulted in her execution comes from an 85-year-old survivor of&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/2005\/04\/02\/a-pardon-for-anne-boleyn\/\">Continue reading<i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tudor-history-news-and-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14793,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions\/14793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}