num_pages: 50
description:  Anne Boleyn is Henry VIII’s most famous wife.  But who was she before she met Henry?   The life of the second wife of King Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, is a figure shrouded in mystery.  Embroiled in a scandalous marriage, she was the sister of her husband’s mistress and came from a family of humble origins.  Missing parish records and conflicting early accounts have cast doubt over Anne’s birth date, something which historians have fiercely debated.  For such a famous queen, remarkably little is known about her early life, about the woman who was to become mother to Elizabeth and meet a tragic end.
language: English
title: The Early Life of Anne Boleyn: A Critical Essay
publisher: Endeavour Compass