On the morning of the 19th of May, Anne was escorted alongside two female attendants to the Scaffold. She wore a red petticoat under a loose, dark grey gown of damask trimmed in fur and a mantle of ermine. She was said to have showed a devilish spirit and as gay as if she were not going to die. She made a small speech to the crowd:
"Good Christian people, I am come hither to die, for according to the law, and by the law I am judged to die, and therefore I will speak nothing against it. I am come hither to accuse no man, nor to speak anything of that, whereof I am accused and condemned to die, but I pray God save the king and send him long to reign over you, for a gentler nor a more merciful prince was there never: and to me he was ever a good, a gentle and sovereign lord. And if any person will meddle of my cause, I require them to judge the best. And thus I take my leave of the world and of you all, and I heartily desire you all to pray for me. O Lord have mercy on me, to God I commend my soul."
The ermine mantle was removed and Anne lifted off her headdress, tucking her hair under a coif. After a brief farewell to her weeping ladies and a request for prayers, she knelt down and one of her ladies tied a blindfold over her eyes. She knelt upright, in the French style of executions. Her final prayer consisted of her repeating continually, “Jesu receive my soul; O Lord God have pity on my soul.” The execution consisted of a single stroke.
"She who has been the Queen of England on earth will today become a Queen in heaven."