Anne Boleyn was the second wife ... waiting at the French court to Queen Mary, King Henry VIII's younger sister. She later served Queen Claude of France for almost seven years.

However war with France ultimately proved expensive and unsuccessful. Henry VIII is known as the 'father of the Royal Navy.' When he became king there ... wanted to marry Anne Boleyn, who had ...

Before their marriage in 1533, Henry VIII’s controversial romance with Anne Boleyn was fueled by intimate love letters. Only the correspondence from Henry VIII’s perspective exists today and ...

Anne Boleyn, second wife of Henry VIII and daughter of Thomas Boleyn, Earl of Ormond and Wiltshire, was crowned queen in Westminster Abbey by Thomas Cranmer on Whit Sunday 1st June 1533. The ...

His brother Arthur died and he succeeded his father as King in April 1509 ... famous divorce he married Anne Boleyn (beheaded), Jane Seymour (died), Anne of Cleves, who is buried in Westminster Abbey ...

She begs King Henry to allow her time to recieve council before her trial. Henry falls in love with the beautiful Anne Boleyn, but must divorce his wife Katherine first. Hoping to gain wealth ...

For Damian Lewis, just standing for two weddings of King Henry VIII in "Wolf Hall ... he had just chopped his previous wife's head off (Anne Boleyn). Then there's Anne of Cleves.

King Henry VIII was King of England from 1509 until his death in 1547. He is best known for having six wives, whom he either divorced, had beheaded or died - except for Catherine Parr who survived ...