I just saw the ad above on Yahoo TV, with its tag, “Find out Anne’s stunning fate in the season finale.”

Hmm. Now, granted, Americans don’t need to know every detail of British history, and the series The Tudors apparently take great liberties with history. Some readers might not be familiar with the series, which of Henry VIII’s wives they’re up to, or that the series is about Henry VIII. Granted, although she’s the most famous of Henry’s wives, they might not divine Anne’s last name (although somehow, I don’t think they’d mix her up with the other Anne). And maybe they don’t have all the billboards for the series we do out here in L.A. and also missed that movie that came out not long ago with Natalie Portman and Scarlett Johansson, since apparently quite a few people did.

But heavens, really, what stunning fate could possibly await Anne friggin’ Boleyn?

Oh, good, they helpfully supplied a clue:

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Yeah.

(Cross-posted at Vagabond Scholar)