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
Katherine Anne Porter In 1977, Porter published "The Never-Ending Wrong", an account of the notorious trial and execution of Sacco and Vanzetti, which she had protested 50 years earlier. Porter died in Silver Spring, Maryland, on September 18, 1980, at the age of 90, and her ashes were buried next to her mother at Indian Creek Cemetery in Texas. In 1990, Recorded Texas Historic Landmark number 2905 was placed in Brown County, Texas, to honor the life and career of Porter. Katherine Anne Porter Katherine Anne Porter (May 15, 1890 – September 18, 1980) was an American journalist, essayist, short story writer, novelist,