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• Anne Boleyn
  Anne Boleyn

  noun

  See Boleyn
• Boleyn, Anne
  Boleyn, Anne

  The second wife of King Henry VIII of England; the mother of Queen Elizabeth I. Anne Boleyn was convicted of adultery and beheaded.

Anne Boleyn

British  

noun

1. See Boleyn

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Boleyn, Anne Cultural  

1. The second wife of King Henry VIII of England; the mother of Queen Elizabeth I. Anne Boleyn was convicted of adultery and beheaded.

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Example Sentences

As rumours spread that Anne Boleyn, the English queen, is about to be executed, three working-class women in Essex sit around drinking, gossiping and wondering what it all means for them.

From BBC • May 13, 2026

One subsequent sitter would be Henry’s second wife, Anne Boleyn, who had reportedly hated More so much that upon his execution she threw his portrait to the ground.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

But he obviously takes a lot of pleasure in the dissolution of the monasteries and the robbing and everything that goes on changing the religion completely, to accommodate Henry VIII’s marriage to Anne Boleyn.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 30, 2024

Callas played Anne Boleyn, a doomed wife of Henry VIII, in a somewhat lesser-known Donizetti opera.

From New York Times • Jan. 20, 2024

It bears, however, the initials H. and J., and was therefore executed, not for Anne Boleyn, but Jane Seymour.

From Annals of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, A.D. 1598-A.D. 1867 With a Preliminary Notice of the earlier Library founded in the Fourteenth Century by Macray, William Dunn