On This Day In History . 25th January 1533 . 👑 King Henry VIII married Ann Boleyn . . ◼ In the winter of 1532, Henry met with King Francis I at Calais & enlisted the support of the French king for his new marriage. . ◼ Immediately upon returning to Dover in England, Henry, now 41, and Anne, now 32, went through a secret wedding service. She soon became pregnant, & there was a second wedding service in London on 25 January 1533. . ◼ On 23 May 1533, Cranmer, sitting in judgment at a special court convened at Dunstable Priory to rule on the validity of the king's marriage to Katharine of Aragon, declared the marriage of Henry & Catherine null & void. . ◼ Five days later, on 28 May 1533, Cranmer declared the marriage of Henry & Anne to be valid. Katharine was formally stripped of her title as queen, becoming instead "princess dowager" as the widow of Henry's brother Arthur. . ◼ In her place, Anne was crowned queen consort on 1 June 1533. The queen gave birth to a daughter slightly prematurely on 7 September 1533. The child was christened Elizabeth, in honour of Henry's mother, Elizabeth of York. . . . #OnThisDayInHistory #ThisDayInHistory #TheYear1533 #History #d25Jan #HenryVIII #KingHenryVIII #AnneBoleyn #HouseofTudor #RoyalWedding #Royalty #Monarchy #England #EnglishMonarchy #KingofEngland #Queen#HenryVIIIofEngland #crown #queenofengland #historic #London #thecrown (at London, United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/BtE0dxWlXLS/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=qhdfsq6qdcqs