Anne Boleyn Author:E. W. Ives The most controversial woman ever to have been queen consort of England. In the relationship between Henry and his second wife, storm followed sunshine, sunshine followed storm...The conventions of the day, of courtly love, of sovereign and consort, of husband and wife, were simply not capable of accommodating the fierce passions which united An... more »ne Boleyn and Henry Tudor. Brief though Anne's influence was, it was a thousand days of support for reform from the throne itself. And hindsight can say more....Catholic hatred of Anne damned her for the break with Rome and for the entrance of heresy into England. It was right on both counts. To use a description no longer in fashion, Anne Boleyn was 'one of the makers of history'.« less