Boleyn

American  

[bool-in, boo-lin] / ˈbʊl ɪn, bʊˈlɪn /

noun

1. Anne, 1507–36, second wife of Henry VIII of England: mother of Queen Elizabeth I.

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Boleyn British  

/ ˈbʊlɪn, bʊˈlɪn /

noun

1. Anne . 1507–36, second wife of Henry VIII of England; mother of Elizabeth I. She was executed on a charge of adultery

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Example Sentences

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

Emmerson said it made the work the earliest scientifically dated panel portrait of Boleyn.

From BBC • Feb. 2, 2026

You’ve devoured her novels, including “The Other Boleyn Girl,” but now Gregory shows off chops as a historian with a tome about British women of all types.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 1, 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

The last scene, preceding the death of Anne Boleyn, is simple and almost homely in its entire want of poetic imagery; yet nothing could be more profoundly touching, and—in the highest sense of the word—tragic.

From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, September, 1851 by Various