Ten facts about Henry VIII's second wife Anne Boleyn
As music from a songbook believed to have belonged to Henry VIII's second wife Anne Boleyn is played for the first time, here are ten facts about the Queen.
Anne Boleyn is believed to have been born around 1500 to Sir Thomas Boleyn and Lady Elizabeth.
She was the lady-in-waiting of Henry VIII's first wife Catherine of Aragon when the King began pursing her romantically, after an earlier dalliance with her elder sister Mary.
In 1527, Henry asked the Pope for an annulment of his marriage so he could marry his then mistress Anne instead but he refused.
Anne Boleyn secretly married Henry VIII in 1533 after becoming pregnant with her first child.
In 1533, after Henry's marriage was finally annulled, Boleyn was crowned Queen shortly after.
Anne stayed the night at St James's Palace after her coronation. The initials HA entwined in a lovers' knot were later seen on a couple of Tudor fireplaces in the State apartments.
Despite the King's hopes of a male heir, Anne gave birth to Princess Elizabeth at Greenwich Palace in London in September 1533.
When Anne failed to produce a male child, Henry got frustrated and took her lady-in waiting Jane Seymour as his mistress.
In 1536, Anne was accused of adultery and incest and imprisoned at the Tower of London before being sentenced to death.
In a speech before her execution on 19 May 1536, Boleyn praised Henry, saying: "a more merciful prince was there never: and to me he was ever a good, a gentle and sovereign lord."
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