The execution of Queen Anne Boleyn.
The execution of Queen Anne Boleyn. 29 year old Anne, King Henry VIII's second wife, was the Queen of England from the 1st of June 1533 to 1536. By March 1536, Henry was having an affair with Jane Seymour, so Henry was looking for a way out of the marriage and had Ann investigated for High Treason. On the 2nd of May she was arrested and imprisoned in the Tower of London. She was tried there and convicted on the 15th of May on trumped up charges of adultery, incest and treason and was thus sentenced to death by burning at the stake or beheading at the King’s pleasure. Fortunately for Anne, he chose the latter and perhaps through a pang of conscience imported a skilled headsman from Calais in France to ensure the execution was performed as humanely as possible. British hangmen normally got the job of beheading those condemned but were generally very poor at it due to the rarity of such sentences. Just four days later, on the 19th May 1536, Anne was led to the Parade Ground within