Dr. Joanne Paul
speaker
347 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2026
last heard 14 Sep
Dr. Joanne Paul’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 1 in all, peaking in Sep 2026 with 1.
Appearances
There's reports that he's dressed in yellow and is extremely joyous at the death of um his wife of twenty years and mother of one of his children.
There's a sense of relief, I think, from him that he can't be.
Be forced to go back to her, no matter what happens.
And I think there's a sense of security that that comes from that.
Of course, as historians have so frequently pointed out, it actually makes Anne's position less secure.
because now Henry, if he detaches himself from Anne, doesn't have to go back to Catherine, which is something he c can't abide.
And so it it frees him up in a way that he hadn't been before.
And
I think for Henry, the the fall from the horse, and I mean you've spent a lot of time thinking about this as well, but my perspective on it is is that it's sort of a reality check.
It's a reminder of his mortality, it's a reminder of his age.
It's a reminder that he isn't the young man he used to be.
You know, the accounts of him when he was in France for
instance, jousting all day against eight different challengers and seeming more robust and energized than he had at the beginning of the day.
That's a young man.
He's now forty-five.
All of that is soundly behind him.
And it's a reminder that had he died in that moment,
The realm would have been an absolute mess.
Yes, there's an heir, but she's a girl and a young child.
who would have been regent in that case.
Showing 221–240 of 347 · page 12 of 18
← Previous
Next →