![]() The fascination with Anne derives from the sensational circumstances of her courtship, marriage, and death - "the most romantic, the most scandalous tragedy in English history" (319). ![]() Anne helped Henry make this revolution: a woman of charismatic will and political acumen, she stiffened his resolve in facing down Rome, securing his divorce, and asserting the royal supremacy, or headship of the new Church of England. The story runs from the first moments of Henry's doubts about the legitimacy of his marriage to Katherine of Aragon through his break with the papacy (1533-34) and attack on the monasteries (1536). During this period Anne's fate was bound inseparably to that of the English church and state. ![]() Anne Boleyn's rise and fall at the court of Henry VIII spanned ten momentous years (1526-36) marking the origins of the English Reformation, one of the great revolutions of the early modern era. ![]()
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