30 Unforeseen Facts About Anne Boleyn

30 Unforeseen Facts About Anne Boleyn

Trista - February 11, 2019

30 Unforeseen Facts About Anne Boleyn
A painting of Catherine of Aragon, King Henry’s first of six wives, attributed to Joannes Corvus. Wikipedia Commons/ Public Domain.

5. Some People Hated Anne From the Beginning

Many called her “the king’s whore” because he was divorcing Catherine of Aragon and splitting from the Catholic church so that he could marry her. They blamed Anne, not Henry, for the dissolution of the royal marriage. When she was killed so that he could marry Jane Seymour, they had to put their feet in their mouths.

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