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The Love Letters of Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn

by Henry VIII

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These seventeen surviving letters were written by King Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn during the late 1520s, while he pursued her and pressed for the annulment that would break England from Rome. Roughly half are in French, and together they show a monarch by turns tender, impatient, and lovestruck, marking his initials around her name. Historians prize the collection because Anne's own replies are lost, leaving these pages as a rare direct window onto the courtship that reshaped a kingdom. Their intimacy sits strangely against what followed, given Anne's later trial and execution. This edition gathers the letters with explanatory notes. Available as a free PDF and EPUB edition.

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Henry VIII

Henry VIII (1491-1547) was King of England whose desire to annul his first marriage and wed Anne Boleyn led to the English Reformation. His letters survive as a vivid historical record.

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