A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Anne of Cleves

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ANNE OF CLEVES,

Daughter of John the Third, duke of Cleves, was the fourth wife of Henry the Eighth of England. He had fallen in love with her from her portrait painted by Holbein, but as the painter had flattered her, Henry soon became disgusted with her, and obtained a divorce. Anne yielded without a struggle, or without apparent concern. She passed nearly all the rest of her life in England as a private personage, and died 1557.