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Anne Boleyn (/ ˈ b ʊ l ɪ n, b ʊ ˈ l ɪ n /; [7] [8] [9] c. 1501 or 1507 – 19 May 1536) was Queen of England from 1533 to 1536, as the second wife of King Henry VIII.The circumstances of her marriage and execution, by beheading for treason, made her a key figure in the political and religious upheaval that marked the start of the English Reformation.
Anne, Lady Shelton (née Boleyn; c. 1483 [1] – 8 January 1556) was a sister of Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, and one of the aunts of his daughter, Queen Anne Boleyn, the second wife of King Henry VIII.
Merle Oberon (born Estelle Merle O'Brien Thompson; 19 February 1911 – 23 November 1979) was a British actress. [1] She gained recognition for portraying Anne Boleyn in The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933) and saw further success with her role in The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934).
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[6] There is documentation that Elizabeth secretly borrowed £100 from Anne, suggesting the two were close. [7] She had not repaid that debt by the time Anne was imprisoned in the Tower. [3] There is also record of a payment made on 4 February 1530 by the king's personal purse to a midwife for the countess of Worcester, most likely Anne's doing.
Lady Margaret Boleyn [2] (c. 1454 – 1539) was an Irish noblewoman, the daughter and co-heiress of Thomas Butler, 7th Earl of Ormond. She married Sir William Boleyn and through her eldest son Sir Thomas Boleyn , was the paternal grandmother of Anne Boleyn , second wife of King Henry VIII of England , and great-grandmother of Anne and Henry's ...
The Boleyn family was a prominent English family in the gentry and aristocracy. They reached the peak of their influence during the Tudor period , when Anne Boleyn became the second wife and queen consort of Henry VIII , their daughter being the future Elizabeth I .
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