Irresistible woman, Intolerable partner

Enter Anne Boleyn. She had many suitors, had good fashion sense and could talk about anything, including high-falutin' literature and she knew about herself and her place in the game with men. Basically, she made the most of what she had and knew. And if that and her dark eyes and hair didn't make King Henry VIII any more crazy for her, she knew exactly what she wanted and knew exactly how to control the man who could give her that coveted power. She teased Henry, and that made her all the more desirable in Henry's eyes.

So what did Henry do? He tried to prove his wife of the time to be a whore, having consummated her earlier marriage to his older brother. When that didn't work, he then broke off from the Catholic Church, and treated Catherine of Aragon horribly just to be able to marry Anne (More like do her, because that was her stipulation). She wouldn't give in so easily until he gave her what she wanted: power in the form of marriage to her. Look at how much he did for her! Anne had chops, and you've got to be quite a woman to have so many men become obsessed without you even trying, and to have someone like the king shoving history, government and religion around for you.

All the things that made Anne Boleyn impossible to resist now made her a demanding and overbearing wife. All of her tricks of getting Henry to do whatever she wanted no longer worked because they're finally married, meaning Henry already got what he originally wanted from her. The fire in her belly then became this conflagration in Henry's palace that could only be extinguished at the source. Eventually it became very obvious that Anne Boleyn was very manipulative. And that's why she got beheaded.

Moral: Beauty and attractive qualities are double-edged swords. Don't abuse it or you just might be slicing off your own head.

"Extreme beauty is an affliction..."
-Gregory Maguire, Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister