And so the Boleyns’ meteoric rise to power came to an abrupt, ignominious end. Her beloved brother, the roguish poet George, died on the scaffold two days before her, charged of incest with his sister and scheming to kill the king. But just three years later, she was dead, beheaded by the very man who’d defied the Catholic Church and centuries of precedent to make her his wife. When Anne Boleyn, the worldly, charismatic daughter of a leading English courtier, caught the eye of Tudor king Henry VIII in the mid-1520s, few could have foreseen just how far she would rise-and, eventually, fall.Ĭrowned queen in 1533, Anne succeeded in ousting her predecessor, Catherine of Aragon, from the throne, ascending to England’s highest echelons against all odds.
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