The significance of King Henry VIII’s love affair with Anne Boleyn and it’s effect on the Protestant Reformation can’t be explained in a simple paragraph or two. The mother of the future Queen Elizabeth I was the reason the Church of England was formed when Pope Clement VII refused to give Henry a divorce to marry Anne. Her failure to produce Henry a male heir was the real “reason for treason” when she was beheaded on May 19, 1536. Ironically this was her royal crown.
