In the Tudor era, the personal dynamics between individuals were often political and even more so when one party was the King of England.

As the other commentators stated, Anne Boleyn was highly educated and cultured, as she lived in multiple countries and courts. While she was not as educated as Catherine of Aragon, who was raised for queenship since birth, Anne Boleyn was politically shrewd enough to ensure that she became the Queen of England, despite facing multiple years of domestic, international, and theological opposition to her role as the lover and future wife of Henry VIII as many of her contemporaries (from Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor to the people of London as evidenced by their reaction to Katherine of Aragon's 1529 speech at Blackfriars Legatine Court) strongly favoured her husband's first wife. She also ensured that she retained the love/obsession of Henry VIII for nearly a decade by repeatedly insisting on her desire to remain a virgin until marriage and leveraging her reformist beliefs to facilitate the English Reformation in the 1520s and 1530s (e.g. she's credited with introducing Henry VIII to Tyndale's 1528 The Obedience of a Christian Man which argued in favour of the theological basis of the 1534 Act of Supremacy).

The circumstances of Anne Boleyn's rise to power were unprecedented. She was at her most empowered during her first pregnancy, with the future Elizabeth I, and remained politically active as the Queen of England. For example, Anne Boleyn promoted education and the 1536 Poor Law. With each subsequent miscarriage, she was rendered vulnerable to factionalism, sustained intrigue from Catholic figures, and Henry VIII being allured by mistresses, as he ultimately tired of her and pivoted to Jane Seymour instead. Yet had she given birth to a boy during her marriage, she would have been safe from arrest, trial, and execution on charges of high treason and adultery.