Anne Boleyn was a Queen of England from 1533 to 1536 as the second wife of King Henry VIII, and Marquess of Pembroke in her own right. Henry's marriage to Anne and subsequent beheading made her a key figure in the political and religious upheaval that was the start of the English Reformation. The English royal consorts were the spouses of the reigning monarchs of the Kingdom of England who were not themselves Monarchs of England. Most consorts are women. They enjoyed titles and honors pertaining to a Queen consort; some few are men, whose titles were not consistent, depending upon the circumstances of their reigns. The Kingdom of England merged with the Kingdom of Scotland in 1707 to form the Kingdom of Great Britain.

Anne was the daughter of Thomas Boleyn, first Earl of Wiltshire, and his wife, Lady Elizabeth Howard, and was educated in the Netherlands and France, largely as a maid of honor to Claude of France. She returned to England in Early 1522, to marry her Irish cousin James Butler, 9th Earl of Ormond; the marriage plans were broken up by Cardinal Wolsey, and instead she secured a post at court as maid of honor to Henry VIII's wife, Catherine of Aragon. Thomas Boleyn was an English Diplomat and politician in the Tudor Era. He was born at the family home, Hever Castle, Kent, which was purchased by his grandfather Sir Geoffrey Boleyn, who was a wealthy mercer. The wives of Henry VIII were the six Queen Consorts wedded to Henry VIII, King of England.

King Henry VIII of England was King of England from 21 April 1509 until his death. He was the first English King of Ireland and continued the nominal claim by English Monarchs to the Kingdom of France. Henry was the second monarch of the Tudor Dynasty, succeeding his father, Henry VII. Henry is known for his consequential role in the Separation of the Church of England from the Roman Catholic Church, besides his six marriages and many extramarital affairs, as well as his effort to obtain an annulment of his marriage to Catherine of Aragon which led to conflict with the Pope. His disagreements with the Pope led to his separation of Church of England from Papal Authority, with himself as King and as the Supreme Head of the Church of England.

A monarchical system of government existed in Ireland from ancient ftimes until for what became the Republic of Ireland, the mid-twentieth century. Northern Ireland, as part of the United Kingdom, remains under a monarchical system of government. The Gaelic Kingdoms of Ireland ended with the Norman Invasion of Ireland, when the Kingdom became a fief of the Holy See under the Lordship of the King of England. This lasted until the Parliament of Ireland conferred the Crown of Ireland upon King Henry VIII of England during the English reformation. The monarch of England held the crowns of England and Ireland in a personal union.

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