Doomed Queen Anne traitor's death, instead receiving the simple axe. On page 129, Anne says that she, herself, will rest her own head on the block the following morning. According to eyewitness accounts, she knelt upright in the French style of execution. Doomed Queen Anne Doomed Queen Anne is a young-adult historical novel about Anne Boleyn by Carolyn Meyer. It is the third book in the Young Royals series. Other books are "Mary, Bloody Mary", "Beware, Princess Elizabeth" and "Patience, Princess Catherine". The book was originally published in the U.S. in 2002 by Harcourt/Gulliver Books (now Houghton Mifflin Harcourt). The book begins in
Anne Jane Thornton seek her lover that sailed across the main,<br> Thro' love she did encownter storms tempest wind and rain.<br> It was love caused all her troubles and hardships we are told;<br> May she rest at home contented now the female sailor bold. Anne Jane Thornton Anne Jane Thornton (1817–1877), also spelt Ann Jane Thornton, was a 19th-century adventurer from Donegal who in 1832 posed as a boy to go to sea, in pursuit of a lost lover who had gone to the United States. She continued her career as a seaman until her arrival in London in 1835, when she was