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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Everybody goes like, well, and of course, most notably the Seymours are in that queue, as are, as it turns out, other Howard girls.
There are the Shelton's who obviously are at court and who have affairs with Henry.
So there's this sort of backlog of young women turning up at court to try the chances, really.
So the Bolins have that as a personal problem.
But as a political problem, Cardinal Wolsey fails to deliver a religious agreement on the divorce and divorce.
is ruined as a result of it and then dies and thomas cromwell is the person who says he can deliver the extraordinarily huge religious financial legal and political changes necessary to guarantee the succession of anne's children and herself as queen did cromwell like the berlins or was it just convenient because he knew that henry was temporarily obsessed with one of them
I don't think Cromwell would allow his likings or dislikings to come into it, really.
I think he's a very astute political player.
I think when the Bolins have clearly got all the bases covered, then he works with them.
He saw what happened to Thomas Wolsey when he failed to work with them.
But I think Thomas Cromwell is very, very, very active and instrumental in
in the trial of George and Anne, which leads to their death.
So he doesn't like them in the sense that any liking stands in the way of the most expedient thing for Cromwell.
Yeah, it's not as unreasonable to them as it is to us in that there is a belief that miscarriage and any form of defect at birth or stillbirth is a consequence of the woman being either illegally sexual or a witch.
The mere fact of two miscarriages, one of which is reported as being malformed, as they would say then, the mere fact of that casts a huge shadow over Anne's reputation.
It suggests either that she's undertaking forbidden sexual practices or that she's engaging in witchcraft.
the stillbirth is the proof of the other.
So that's really, really, really problematic before you start.
And Anne's enemies, of course, who are everyone who is Roman Catholic.
So that's a good half of the country.
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