ANNE BOLEYN, THE BEHEADED QUEEN

Exceptional destinies

An episode from the series SECRETS OF HISTORY - PORTRAITS

Synopsis

On May 19, 1536, Anne Boleyn, the wife of Henry VIII, was led to the scaffold at the Tower of London. After only three years of marriage, the queen was convicted of adultery, treason, and incest.

Was she guilty, or the victim of a political trial orchestrated by her own husband?

Her execution remains one of the greatest scandals in the history of the English monarchy.