East Tennessee State University Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University Undergraduate Honors Theses Student Works 5-2017 Anne Boleyn: Living a Thousand Lives Forever Amanda S. Nicholson East Tennessee State University Follow this and additional works at: https://dc.etsu.edu/honors Part of the European History Commons, Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Commons, and the Women's History Commons Recommended Citation Nicholson, Amanda S., "Anne Boleyn: Living a Thousand Lives Forever" (2017). Undergraduate Honors Theses. Paper 423. https://dc.etsu.edu/honors/423 This Honors Thesis - Open Access is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Works at Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University. It has been accepted for inclusion in Undergraduate Honors Theses by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Anne Boleyn: Living a Thousand Lives Forever Amanda Nicholson Honors Thesis February 10, 2017 Nicholson 1 Anne Boleyn appeared at the English court of Henry VIII in 1526. Capturing the imagination of the King and the country, Anne changed the course of English history for all time. Anne’s influence supplanted a long-time, well-loved Queen and changed the religion of a country that had been Catholic for over a thousand years. Anne, the sister of Henry’s former mistress, first served as a lady-in-waiting to Katharine of Aragon, Henry VIII’s first wife, in 1526. Henry and Katharine wed in 1509. The royal couple, despite having a daughter, were desperate to produce a male heir. Anne and Henry began a relationship with that objective in mind.