5/10/2023 0 Comments Strength jane washington![]() Their early months of marriage were happy ones, and their first child, Elizabeth, was born in 1533. He managed to get his first marriage annulled by breaking with the pope and declaring himself head of the Church of England and then Anne Boleyn consented to marry him. For seven years he wooed her, and for seven years she put him off. She was intelligent and outspoken, and had educated opinions about politics and religious reform and came to the court of Henry VIII when she was 20 years old, to serve as lady-in-waiting to Queen Catherine of Aragon. On this date in 1536, Anne Boleyn, the second wife of England’s King Henry VIII, was arrested for high treason, adultery, and incest. ![]() ![]() © Eastern Washington University Press, 2007. “Girl in the Doorway” by Dorianne Laux from Awake. ![]()
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