![]() Who was Anne Boleyn before she became Queen?īoleyn was a member of Henry VIII’s court, serving as a maid of honor to his first wife, Catherine of Aragon, to whom he was married from 1509 to 1533. Historians believe the charges against her were false, issued by Henry VIII to remove Boleyn as his wife and enable him to marry his third wife, Jane Seymour, in hopes of producing a male heir. At her trial, she was found guilty, and on she was taken to Tower Green in London, where she was beheaded by a French swordsman, rather than the standard axe-wielding executioner. ![]() In 1536, England’s King Henry VIII accused his second wife Anne Boleyn, who had been crowned queen in 1533, of charges including adultery, incest and conspiracy against the king. ![]()
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