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Anne Boleyn (/ ˈ b ʊ l ɪ n, b ʊ ˈ l ɪ n /; c. 1501 or 1507 – 19 May 1536) was Queen of England from 1533 to 1536, as the second wife of King Henry VIII. The circumstances of her marriage and execution by beheading for treason, made her a key figure in the political and religious upheaval that marked the start of the English Reformation .
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Henry VIII (b. 1491) had married the Spanish princess Catherine of Aragon in June 1509. Catherine had married Henry's elder brother Arthur in 1501 but the prince had died the next year. Henry's marriage seemed a happy one in its early years but of the queen's six children, only one survived infancy, a girl, Mary, born in February 1516. Henry, meanw...
A new Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Cranmer, who was also keen to split the English Church from Rome, formally annulled Henry's first marriage on 23 May 1533. Cranmer had also been the chaplain of Anne's father in 1529. With the passing of the Act in Restraint of Appeals by Parliament (drafted by Cromwell), Catherine had no recourse to any appea...
Henry had married Anne in secret on 25 January 1533, even before his first marriage was officially annulled. The pressure had really been on since a child born out of wedlock would not be recognised by everyone as the king's legitimate heir. Anne, by then heavily pregnant, was crowned Queen of England on 1 June 1533. However, the public's support o...
When the king discovered that Anne had had an affair, or perhaps simply because his lust was already being satisfied by another lady-in-waiting at court, Jane Seymour, he ordered Anne's arrest. The queen was confined to the Tower of London on 2 May 1536, poignantly, in the very same chambers she had stayed in prior to her coronation. The case again...
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Anne Boleyn (21 March 1501 – 19 May 1536) was the second wife of King Henry VIII of England and queen consort from 1533 until 1536. She was the mother of Elizabeth I of England . Anne has been called "the most influential and important queen consort England has ever had."
- 1 June 1533
- c. November 1501, Blickling Hall, Norfolk
- 28 May 1533 – 17 May 1536
Anne Boleyn ( / ˈbʊlɪn, bʊˈlɪn /; c. 1501 or 1507 – 19 May 1536) was Queen of England from 1533 to 1536, as the second wife of King Henry VIII. The circumstances of her marriage and execution by beheading for treason, made her a key figure in the political and religious upheaval that marked the start of the English Reformation.
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Anne Boleyn, second wife to Henry VIII (1491–1547), is often remembered as the instigator of English Reformation and thus the Church of England, mother to the legendary Elizabeth I (1533–1603), and of course, the first wife that Henry VIII beheaded.
The coronation of Anne Boleyn as Queen of England took place at Westminster Abbey, London, England, on 1 June 1533. The new queen was King Henry VIII's second wife , following the annulment of his first marriage to Catherine of Aragon .
