What were Cromwell's feelings for Anne Boleyn?

I think Dayna Goodchild had some excellent points. It's very hard to know what Cromwell felt personally, but it's not really important because Cromwell never let his personal feelings get in the way of accomplishing the king's will. read more

Contemporary accounts tell us that Cromwell and Anne Boleyn were allies at one time, and that Cromwell helped to engineer the end of Henry’s marriage with Queen Katherine of Aragon. Cromwell actually started his career as one of Cardinal Wolsey’s lackies but managed to distance himself from Wolsey after he fell from royal favour when Wolsey failed to secure the annulment for Henry’s first marriage. read more

Anne Boleyn (/ ˈ b ʊ l ɪ n, b ʊ ˈ l ɪ n /; c. 1501 – 19 May 1536) was Queen of England from 1533 to 1536 as the second wife of King Henry VIII. Henry's marriage to her, and her subsequent execution by beheading, made her a key figure in the political and religious upheaval that was the start of the English Reformation. read more

The king and Anne Boleyn were secretly married in January 1533, causing Henry and the Archbishop of Canterbury at the time, Thomas Cranmer, to be excommunicated from the Catholic church. This in turn led to the establishment of the Church of England, a major step in the Reformation that added England to the list of Protestant nations. Thomas Cromwell. read more