Catherine is banished from court in 1530…
1396 CE to 1539 CE
Their marriage is declared invalid, making Mary an illegitimate child.
Henry marries Anne Boleyn in secret in January 1533, just as his divorce from Catherine is finalized.
After this, they have a second, public wedding.
Anne soon becomes pregnant and may have already been when they wed, but on September 7, 1533, she gives birth to a daughter, Elizabeth.
The king is devastated at his failure to obtain a son after all the effort it had taken to remarry.
Gradually, he comes to develop a disliking of his new queen for her strange behavior.
In 1536, when Anne is pregnant again, Henry is badly injured in a jousting accident.
Shaken by this, the queen gives birth prematurely to a stillborn boy.
By now, the king is convinced that his marriage is hexed, and having already found a new queen, Jane Seymour, he puts Anne in the Tower of London on charges of witchcraft.
She is afterward beheaded along with five men (her brother included) accused of adultery with her.
The marriage is now declared invalid, so that Elizabeth, just like her half sister, becomes a bastard.
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