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Anne Boleyn

noun

  1. See Boleyn
    See Boleyn


Boleyn, Anne

  1. The second wife of King Henry VIII of England ; the mother of Queen Elizabeth I . Anne Boleyn was convicted of adultery and beheaded.


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Think Henry the VIII and Anne Boleyn, the mistress he eventually married and ultimately beheaded.

This is the closet Bordo comes to a phenomenological approximation of what it was like to be Anne Boleyn.

No matter: The Creation of Anne Boleyn is a welcome corrective to the myths and misconceptions.

His mother, Anne, was a lady-in-waiting and companion of  Anne Boleyn, Henry's second wife.

Mantel's lecture, organised by London Review of Books, was titled Undressing Anne Boleyn and was on the topic of royal women.

Cranmer pronounced his marriage to Catherine null, and declared him lawfully married to Anne Boleyn.

The latter repudiated her in order to marry Anne Boleyn, and this divorce was the origin of the English schism.

Anne Boleyn's fascinating smile split the great Church of Rome in twain, and gave a nation an altered destiny.

Henry became disgusted with his queen, and enamoured of one of her maids of honour, Anne Boleyn.

"Anne Boleyn" is particularly prolific in good puns, in the making of which the author showed himself an adept.

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