Multiple acts of adultery, involving five men? Was it Henry himself, crediting some slander and lashing out in blind rage? Or his minister Thomas Cromwell, fighting for his own career? What part was played by the papist How did he become so alienated from her that he wanted her dead? Had she really slept with her brother George? Who was the prime mover in alleging against her
Henry had fought for years to extricate himself from his first marriage and create a world where he and Anne could be husbandĪnd wife to achieve it, he had split Christian Europe apart. Historians are still puzzling over Anne’s downfall. The story of Anne Boleyn, second wife of Henry VIII, ended in May 1536, when the master executioner of Calais - sent for specially, and said to be an adept in his art - separated her clever head from her seductiveīody with one clean stroke of his sword.
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