Second wife of Henry VIII and so Queen of England, 1533 to 1536. Though married to Catherine of Aragon, Henry developed a passion for one of her maids of honour, Anne, and so began the whole horrid mess which was the Reformation. the happy couple were married on 25 January 1533 and Anne gave birth to Elizabeth (later Queen) on 9 September that year. It's always said that Anne refused Henry's advances until they were married so the baby must have been almost a month premature. Anyway, Anne failed to produce any more living children, let alone the longed-for boy and Henry's eyes alighted on Jane Seymour. Anne was accused of high treason, adultery, incest and parking on a double yellow line, found guilty and beheaded on Tower Green.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Anne Boleyn
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Anne Boleyn beheaded - 1946
This image comes from the 1946 short documentary film 'Prisoners of the Tower...
Drapers' Hall
Drapers' Hall On this site, once part of the Augustine Priory, Thomas Cromwel...
Queen Elizabeth's Oak
The old tree is presumably gradually being decomposed by beetles and the like...
Tower of London execution site
Catling wrote the poem as well as creating the sculpture. Doesn't that cushio...
Tower of London execution site - c.1910
This image came from Twitter via Londonist, and from the children's clothes m...
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