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he king had waited more than six years to be with Anne, but it would not be long after his marriage that the king, as Chapuys, the Spanish ambassador would remark, would be "sick and tired of that she-devil".
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Anne was obstinate and assertive, it was her inability to bear male heirs that most distressed the king. After Anne's second stillbirth in 1536, Henry, convinced she could not bear him sons, confided to his advisor Thomas Cromwell that "he had made this marriage seduced by her witchcraft."
International power politics also played a role in Anne's downfall. Holy Roman Emperor Charles V was eager to ally himself with Henry now that his relations with King Francis I of France had gone awry. Anne, whose title was never recognized by Charles V, was pro-French and stood in the way of a possible alliance.
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