Philippa Gregory
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357 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 25 May
Philippa Gregory’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So it's not the Pope anymore, it's Henry.
And the other establishes the right of Anne's children to be the legal heirs.
Well, they undermine themselves as well in that there's only three siblings, Anne, George and Mary.
Mary, once she's out of the king's bed and interest, she literally seems to do all she can just to get out of court altogether.
And she marries someone that nobody's ever heard of very much, Stafford.
And she goes and lives with him in the country.
She falls out with Anne.
I believe because when she comes to court and can see that she's pregnant, they cannot make a good marriage with her because she's had the cleverness to marry somebody relatively unimportant straight away.
So she's of no use to the Bolins in terms of power-broking a woman as a pawn, and she's no use to the Bolins in terms of being attractive to the king because they don't want him diverted.
So she retires to the country, to Essex, actually, and doesn't significantly come back as a power player at all.
So now there's just two of them, but two of them and George's wife, Jane, Jane Boleyn.
And so the three of them
are responsible for maintaining the attraction and the power of the queen.
And that is against a constant stream of new ladies in waiting and new maids in waiting at court who have learned from Anne that one of the ways to get
enormous riches for your family and enormous success.
And possibly the top job is to seduce Henry, even though he's married to somebody else.
Nobody has ever seen divorce as a sort of marital choice before.
Queens have been put aside, but mostly for being infertile, for the marriage being annulled in some way or another, for religious grounds.
Nobody has ever just said, I want a new wife and I think I'll have one.
So once the floodgates were opened, this is a possibility.
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