Philippa Gregory
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357 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 25 May
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And the next thing, the girl who wasn't good enough to be Duchess of Northumberland is heading to be Queen of England.
I mean, I think for a long time, nobody thinks she'll do it.
And I think for a long time, everybody thinks that she is bound to give in, that she'll just parley the best deal for it and then have sex with Henry.
And you would think that that happens.
She gets a very, very, very good title and she gets a huge grant of land.
And I think at the same time, she gets a promise of marriage.
And then they have sex at some time when they visited the King of France at Calais.
probably on the way home, and then they're married in secret.
Yes.
He becomes very, very major in the King's Council, but they all do.
So when there's next mission to France, George Boleyn does it.
George Boleyn becomes very, very significant in terms of international diplomacy and very, very significant in terms of still going between the king and the queen in terms of advice.
What becomes...
The main object is to finalize and establish the legality of the marriage, which takes place initially in secret.
And then there's after that, there's a coronation.
But the legality of the marriage and the absolute importance of the succession, because Anne is certain that she's going to have a boy.
And part of the promises she gave to the king undoubtedly is that she will give him a boy, which Catherine of Aragon has failed.
Something like 11, 12 times to do.
Catherine of Aragon only ever has one child, one surviving child, Princess Mary.
So next you have this massive legal changes, which are the Act of Supremacy and the Act of Succession, which is one establishes Henry as leader of the Church of England, now reformed.
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