Famous Last Words

King Henry VIII
"All is lost. Monks, monks, monks!"

Anne Boleyn (wife of Henry VIII)
"The executioner is, I believe, very expert, and my neck is very slender"

Queen Elizabeth I
"All my possessions for a moment of time."

King Charles II
"Don't let poor Nelly (his mistress, Nell Gwynne) starve."

King William IV
"Wally, what is this? It is death, my boy: they have deceived me"
To his page, Sir Walthen Waller

Sir Walter Raleigh
"So the heart be right, it is no matter which way the head lieth."
At his execution

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