May 19 is the 488th anniversary of the execution of Anne Boleyn, second wife of Henry VIII of England, who lost her head ...

Anne Boleyn was the second wife of Henry VIII and the mother of Elizabeth I. Henry's desire to divorce his first wife and marry Anne helped bring about the English Reformation. She was the first ...

Image: Annette Crosbie as Catherine of Aragon, Dorothy Tutin as Anne Boleyn Keith Michell as Henry VIII and Anne Stallybrass as Jane Seymour in a scene from the series The Six Wives Of Henry VIII.

While there’s a touch of “Greensleeves” — the song Henry VIII supposedly wrote for his second wife, Anne Boleyn — the show features futuristic costumes, sassy quips and an all-female ...

The programme premiered in 2007 and is set during the reign of Henry VIII. The first series became the highest-rating ...

Thomas Cromwell, the son of a blacksmith, worked his way up to become King Henry VIII's chief minister following the king's marriage to Anne Boleyn. Some historians believe it was Cromwell who ...

In 1947, gangster Al "Scarface" Capone died at age 48 after suffering from syphilis. In 1959, the first scheduled ...

In 1533, Henry VIII broke with the church and married the now pregnant Anne Boleyn in a secret ceremony. Henry was excommunicated by the Pope. The English reformation had begun. After Wolsey's ...

In 1533, England’s King Henry VIII secretly married his second wife, Anne Boleyn, who later gave birth to Elizabeth I. In 1787, Shays’ Rebellion forces failed in an attempt to overtake the U.S.

King Henry VIII (Richard Burton) of England discards one wife, Catharine of Aragon (Irene Papas), who has failed to produce a male heir, in favor of a young and beautiful woman, Anne Boleyn ...