Anne Boleyn was the Queen of England as the second wife of Henry VIII.
Anne was sent to the Netherlands for her education, and later to France; she returned to England in 1521. She was lady-in-waiting to Queen Catherine. Around 1526, Henry started to pursue her. Anne parried the King's advances, refusing to give way until he received an annulment of his marriage to Catherine. When Pope Clement VII seemed unlikely to grant the annulment, the inexorable rift between King Henry and the Roman Catholic Church began.
In late 1532, Anne gave in to Henry and soon became pregnant. The two were secretly married on 25 January 1533. To make the imminent birth legitimate, Thomas Cranmer declared the marriage of Henry and Anne to be valid. In September 1533 she gave birth to a girl, the future Queen Elizabeth I of England. She failed to produce a surviving male heir. Despite unconvincing evidence against her, she was condemned and beheaded as guilty of adultery, incest, and high treason.
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