On January 25, 1553, Ferdinand VIII and Anne Boleyn were secretly married. They did this secretly with the intention that no one would know, but far from being the result of a passionate love that made them impatient to marry, their main motive was to circumvent the decision of the Pope, who had to plead and evade approving the annulment of the king’s previous marriage to Catherine of Aragon. All this provoked the emancipation of the Anglican Church when it separated from Rome, precipitating the reform of the Anglican Church, which was finally consolidated during the reign of Elizabeth I.

Anne Boleyn belonged to one of the most influential families of the English nobility. Part of her childhood was spent in France at the court of King Francis I, and on her return to England in 1522 she became a lady to Queen Catherine of Aragon, the youngest daughter of the Catholic Monarchs and the first wife of Henry VIII. This happened just at the moment when their marriage cracked: the king wanted an heir, but he did not have one. Catherine of Aragon had two stillborn sons and a daughter, who became the future Mary I of England.

Enrique VIII was so obsessed with continuing his dynasty that in 1527, when his wife was 44, he even asked the pope to annul his marriage to Catherine of Aragon. But Pope Clement VII refused to grant a divorce. At that time, the king was already in a relationship with Anne Boleyn, who was known for her attractiveness and because of which she prevented a possible marriage with the lord. Thus, Henry VIII decided to break with Rome and marry his beloved.

The brawl between the English and Catholicism hastened the political crisis between the two countries and led to the severing of the religious ties between Henry VIII’s monarchy and the papacy.

490 years ago on this day Anne Boleyn and Henry VIII said yes hidden from the world in the king’s private chapel at Whitehall Palace. It wasn’t until a few months later that Catherine of Aragon’s divorce was approved and Ana Boleyn could become queen. Both had a girl who would become Elizabeth I in the future, but the boy did not appear, besides, the situation at court was tense. The queen had a capricious and arrogant nature, which angered politicians and led to a marriage crisis. In 1528, many years before she became queen, Ana was already behaving as if she were queen. She sat in her seat at banquets, wearing luxurious jewels and luxurious purple dresses reserved for royalty.

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The king accused her of adultery and executed her. On May 19, 1536, Anne Boleyn was beheaded in London by a blow from the sword. English historian Tracy Borman, a specialist in the Tudor dynasty, discovered a document in the National Archives of the United Kingdom containing King Henry VIII’s instructions for the execution of his second wife, Anne Boleyn. In it, Henry VIII gives precise instructions on how and where his wife should be executed. Which demonstrates, according to Bormann, Henry’s “deliberate and calculating character” and reinforces the image of the English king as a “pathological monster”.

The monarch clarified that Anne Boleyn’s head should be “chopped off”, which means that the action should be carried out with a sword, trying to get a clean cut from the executioner. However, this was rare in England, so the king sent his secretary Thomas Cromwell to France to look for a swordsman.

Most historians consider the 22 allegations of adultery leveled against Anne Boleyn to be unfounded, and it is unlikely that she was involved in a plot to assassinate the King, as she was her main source of power. However, her reputation as a frivolous woman, her penchant for male company, and her indulgence in courtship led the monarch and many others to consider her guilty.

Anne Boleyn is one of the most infamous queens in history. The Queen has been pointed out as a shameless climber whose sole purpose was to lure our Queen Catalina of Aragon, daughter of the Catholic Monarchs, from her marriage bed.

The king, obsessed with the desire to have a son, married 6 times (Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Juan Seymour, Anna of Cleves, Catherine Howard, whom he also beheaded, and Catherine Parr), but could not have a future heir. With his third wife, Jane Seymour, he had a child, but he died very young. Unable to guarantee the succession of the Tudor dynasty, the daughter of Catherine of Aragon, the first wife of the king, ascended the throne, although after her death it was the turn of Elizabeth I, daughter of Anne Boleyn.

“Blood, Sex and Royalty”

netflix just came out Blood, sex and royalty, a three-part docudrama that tells the story of Anne Boleyn and Henry VIII, taking as its starting point the love story the couple actually lived until he fell in love with another woman, a pattern he repeated throughout his life. Netflix was not the only platform that decided to tell the story of the Queen Consort. HBO Max sparked controversy on social media last year for casting a black queen consort for her role on the show. Ann Bolein.