Although he had a court executioner, Henry VIII actually did hire an expert swordsman from St. Omer, France, to behead his second wife, Anne Boleyn. Queen Anne had been convicted of treason, the punishment for which was hanging, drawing, and quartering, but Henry commuted the sentence to beheading. Nice guy.Yeah? I wonder if they had an equivalent to a Heisman Trophy back then?
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