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Anne Boleyn

Anne Boleyn(c. 1501 – 19 May 1536) was the Queen of England from 1533 to 1536 as the second wife of King Henry VIII and Marquess of Pembroke in her own right. Henry's marriage to Anne, and her subsequent execution, made her a key figure in the political and religious upheaval that was the start of the English Reformation.She was educated in the Netherlands and France, largely as a maid of honour to Claude of France. She returned to England in early 1522, to marry her Irish cousin James Butler, 9th Earl of Ormond; the marriage plans were broken up by Cardinal Wolsey, and instead she became the maid of honour to Henry VIII's wife, Catherine of Aragon. King Henry VIII ordered her execution in the Tower of London because she gave a birth to a female child since he wanted a male heir of his throne.


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