GEORGE SAND - words to live by :)

We can not tear ouy a single page of our lives, but we can throw the whole book on the fire!

The "OTHER" Boleyn girl ...

Mary Boleyn (c. 1499/1500 – 19 July 1543) was the sister of English quenn Anne Boleyn and a member of the Boleyn family, which enjoyed considerable influence during the reign of King Henry VIII of England. Some historians claim she was Anne's younger sister, but her children believed Mary was the elder sister, as do most historians today.

Mary was one of the mistress of king Henry VIII.. It has been alleged that she bore two of the King's children, one boy and one girl, though Henry did not acknowledge either of them as he did with Henry Fitzroy, his son by Elzianbeth Blount. Mary was also rumoured to have been a mistress of Henry VIII's rival, King Francis Iof France. She was also the maternal aunt of Queen Elizabeth I of England.

Mary's sister, Anne, had earlier returned to England, and soon joined the royal court as one of Queen Catherine's Maids-of-Honour. Anne achieved considerable popularity at court, although the sisters are not thought to have been particularly close and they moved in different social circles.

Although Mary was alleged to have been more attractive than her sister, Anne seems to have been more ambitious and intelligent. When the king took an interest in Anne, she refused to become his mistress, being shrewd enough to wait and not give in to his sexual advances until it was the most advantageous. By the middle of 1527, Henry was determined to marry her. This gave him further incentive to seek the annulment of his marriage to Catherine of Aragon. A year later, when Mary's husband died during an outbreak of sweatting sickness, Henry granted Anne Boleyn the wardship of her nephew, Henry Carey. Mary's husband had left her with considerable debts, and Anne arranged for Henry to be educated at a respectable Cisterian monastery. Anne interceded to secure Mary a small annual pension of £100.

For uncertain reasins Mary Boleyn was also called "The great prostitute". 

^{This may very well have been the reason for the situation of her second marriage;}

Mary Boleyn married twice: first to Sir William Carey, whom she wed in 1520, and second to Sir William Staffors, a soldier. This latter marriage to a man so far beneath her station angered her sister, Queen Anne, and resulted in Mary's banishment from the royal court in 1534. She spent the remainder of her life in obscurity. This may also have saved her destiny and her life, because her sister Anne was beheaded, wrongley accused amongst other things for incest with their brother George Boleyn who was also excecuted a day  before her, with her very possibly watching from her appartement prison-cell. 

Their father Thomas Boleyn died two years after, released from prison (!?!!), alone and ashamed, after the beheading of his two children he had a big blame in. His greed had caused almost theire entire

family in a most brutal way.

A lovesong for Bobby Long

My favourite movie of ALL TIME! 

Why?

Well, it's an extremely well written story about loss and love and failure and alcohol-flowing beside intoxicating music  in New Orleans, Lousiana. Old meets new, questions meets answers.

It is a HUMAN story, a story about human greatness aswell as all the human flaws, and if I could only ask for one thing today, it would be that everyone sees this film!!

I wish that those of you who has watced the film, would tell  me your thoughts of it!! :D