Queen Anne Boleyn and King Henry VIII had no more children after the birth of Princess Elizabeth. Anne Boleyn would suffer from miscarriages from 1534 to 1536. Henry VIII was a very superstitious person and began to think on was it right to marry Anne. He wanted a male heir and obviously, Anne Bolen failed to deliver him one. The king would later look putside of his marriage with Anne for a new solution.

Anne Boleyn was arrested on this day, May 2, 1536. She would be taken at the Tower of London. She entered the private postern gate which is now known today as the Byward Tower. Anne was found guilty of treason and adultery on May 15, 1536. She was accused of having extramarital affairs with five other men which included her brother George Boleyn.

Anne Boleyn would be executed by decapitation on May 19, 1536 on the scaffold of Tower Green. With a single stroke of a sword, she died. Her remains were later buried at the Tower chapel of St Peter ad Vincula.

Before her death: Anne gave her final speech:

“Good Christian people, I have not come here to preach a sermon; I have come here to die. For according to the law and by the law I am judged to die, and therefore I will speak nothing against it. I am come hither to accuse no man, nor to speak of that whereof I am accused and condemned to die, but I pray God save the King and send him long to reign over you, for a gentler nor a more merciful prince was there never, and to me he was ever a good, a gentle, and sovereign lord. And if any person will meddle of my cause, I require them to judge the best. And thus I take my leave of the world and of you all, and I heartily desire you all to pray for me.”

Today, most historians believed that Anne and the other accused were innocent; that these events were staged for Henry VIII to remarry and successfully obtain the male heir he wanted and that Anne was an obstacle to Thomas Cromwell. Thomas Cromwell considered Anne Boleyn to be an enemy because she was an obstacle to his interests such as the dissolution of the monasteries during that time.