This for me is true for two reasons!
Firstly and personally it was the day I foolishly married a womaniser (1986) whom I divorced two years later on the grounds of his gross adultery!!
450 years earlier it saw the bloody murder of 5 innocent men!!!



Kathrine of Aragon had died early in 1536 and with this even Henry and Anne "celebrated!" this event by wearing yellow silk and dancing...they also had another reason to celebrate...Queen Anne was pregnant again and Henry was eagerly awaiting the birth of the long waited for son. At this stage though their marriage had become strained as Anne had learned of Henry's womanising (I can well sympathise here) and indeed his eye had already been caught by the supposedly pious and devote Jane Seymore, who was everything Anne wasn't! Quiet, submissive, and not much intelligence, of plain appearence and certainly nothing special. Anne herself was indeed feeling threatened by her and was becoming increasingly adgitated. This came to a head when the Queen discovered Jane and Henry in a passionate kiss and this subsequently caused her to misscarrie the much desired son...However the still born boy was so badly deformed it would not have lived, and the Kings suspections were aroused. How could he, the King, possibly have fathered a deformed child??? He was the King and thus, perfect!!! Such vanities gave way to the supposed whisper of witchcraft and so began Thomas Cromwells plot to not only depose Anne but to have her murdered!!
Initially, Cromwell had been a firm supporter and friend of Anne, but due to their differences in foriegn policy and Thomas crawling after the King like a pet puppy, he turned on Anne when Henry had screached "Get rid of her!!" at him in a horrible rage after the sill born child!! It is constantly said that Anne had misscaried of her saviour and the wheels for her downfall were set in motion!! Thomas Cromwell then used Annes own flirty personility against her and five innocent men, favorites of Anne's, were draged into the frame. Sir Henry Norris, Sir William Brereton, Sir Francis Weston, her own brother Viscount Rochford (George Boleyn) and her favorite musician Mark Smeaton. Most of Cromwell plotting centered on court gossip, sniggers and overheard bits of conversation. Like when Anne accused Henry Norris herself of visiting her when he was supposed to be visiting one of her ladies in waiting. Gossip carefully and clumsily super-glued together to form a case against the Queen!!
In the final week of April the first to be arrested was the musician, who was tortured by having his eyeballs squashed with a knotted rope, and then most probabally racked too, where his limbs would have been ripped out of his sockets causing excrusiating pain and ripped the words "I confess to adultery with the Queen!" from his lips...The next arrests came at the May day festivities. The last to be arrested was the Queens own brother George on the accusation of incest!! Anne and George were indeed close but not THAT close!! it has even been suggested by some historians and indeed the Tudors mini series, that George was gay, but there is nothing historical to prove this as he is presented as somthing of a womaniser, but its very possible he could have been bi-sexual. His relationship with his wife Jane, was simply awfull, and it was supposidly her that planted the incest thing in Cromwells mind when the ladies of the chamber were questioned. But none of the dates and places in all the accusations could be proved as the Queens whereabouts did not correspond to them.....
On the 17th of May 1536 all five accused but innocent men submitted their necks to the executioners block...even Mark Smeaton who was a commoner was beheaded. Commeners were hung instead.
Poor, hansome, intelligent, talented men died for no other real reason than politics and Henry's lust for another woman!

It was Thomas Wyatt who wrote the poem "These bloody days have broken my heart" ...Wyatt was also arrested but later released without charge!