Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn In his anxiety to rid himself of a wife who could not give him a male heir, Henry VIII said Anne Boleyn committed adultery with various men (and thus treason) and incest (with her brother). She also had bewitched him. Because marrying her brought Protestantism to England, it was widely believed by Roman Catholics that Anne possessed a third nipple and a sixth finger on her left had, and that -as a child-she had a curious dislike of church-bells. It was clear that Anne Boleyn had entered into a pact with the Devil and that the King had been a victim of her devilish sorcery... The supposed lovers of Anne Boleyn were executed on May 17 of the year 1536 and two days later Anne was beheaded i the Tower. She wore a gay robe of damask over an underskirt of red and upon her wonderful black hair she had a pearl-embroidered hood. As she stood there on the scaffold, her dark eyes shining, laughing in the f...
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