Anne Boleyn, second wife of Henry VIII and daughter of Thomas Boleyn, Earl of Ormond and Wiltshire, was crowned queen in Westminster Abbey by Thomas Cranmer on Whit Sunday 1st June 1533. The ...

Because of the effect of the dissolution on the Abbey, and the link with Henry VIII's second wife Anne Boleyn, who was beheaded, the statue became known as Anne Boleyn and the seat Anne Boleyn's Seat.