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30 Unforeseen Facts About Anne Boleyn

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22. Anne Became Pregnant Outside of Marriage

An early-20th-century painting of Anne Boleyn, depicting her deer hunting with the King. William Powell Frith/ bridgeman.co.uk/ Wikimedia Commons/ Public Domain.

The ultimate scandal of the time was for an unmarried woman to become pregnant, and that’s precisely what happened. When she realized that she was pregnant, Anne and Henry were married in a private ceremony at Westminster Chapel, where she was crowned queen. Her daughter would become Queen Elizabeth.

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