Fall from GRACE
Anne Boleyn – the second and most famous of Henry VIII’s six wives – was stylish, intelligent and witty, and her downfall has captured the public imagination for centuries. She was notoriously beheaded in 1536 after failing to provide the Tudor king with an heir, bringing an end to a scandalous marriage that saw the monarch separate the Church of England from papal authority in Rome in order to wed.
Once portrayed as an adulteress and traitor in a legacy driven by Henry himself, Anne Boleyn is now beginning to be cast in a different light; that of a woman who knew her own mind and played an active political role in Tudor Britain.
She was born in circa 1501, probably at home in Norfolk’s Blickling Hall, to diplomat Thomas Boleyn and Elizabeth Howard, a descendant of Edward I. The family then moved to Hever
