Did anne Boleyn have a secret boyfriend?

Answer 1

Before she married Henry VIII, she married Henry Percy duke of Northumberland secretly their marriage was discovered by Anne's uncle and head of her family and made the newly weds say it had never been, and Henry Percy went to Northumberland to recover from his broken heart. Anne however was determined to prov her uncle wrong, as he said that she had aimed her sights to high in marrying a duke, which is why she was so determined to steel Henry VIII from her sister Mary and marry him, which she did cost her her head.

Answer 2

Prior to her marrying King Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn had caught the interest of Henry Percy, the son to the 5th Earl of Northumberland. Some fictional stories and movies depict that Anne and Henry secretly got engaged or even married, but it is widely accepted that the betrothal was public knowledge. It is also speculation that Percy had to give up Anne once Henry VIII became interested in her (some say that this is why Thomas Wolsey intervened and why there was bad blood between he and Anne), but it is also possible that the match fell apart because the Earl of Northumberland had already promised his son to another nobleman's daughter.

In addition to Henry Percy, Anne Boleyn was briefly engaged to James Butler, the 9th Earl of Ormond and who was also her cousin. The match was proposed to settle a dispute over an inheritance matter between Anne's father, Thomas Boleyn and James' father, but the marriage never followed through and to this day no one knows why.