HISTORY MEME: [2/9] KINGS/QUEENS: Anne BoleynAnne Boleyn (c. 1501 – 19 May 1536) was

HISTORY MEME: [2/9] KINGS/QUEENS: Anne Boleyn

Anne Boleyn (c. 1501 – 19 May 1536) was Queen of England from 1533 to 1536 as the second wife of King Henry VIII, and Marquess of Pembroke in her own right. Henry’s marriage to Anne, and her subsequent execution by beheading, made her a key figure in the political and religious upheaval that was the start of the English Reformation. [more]