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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Everyone who supports Queen Catherine.
So that's a whole chunk of people.
Everyone who supports her daughter, Lady Mary, who Anne has been bullying mercilessly.
And everyone who supports other people like Jane Seymour.
So by being the tallest poppy by far,
they have got a real set of enemies lined up against them.
And at the first whisper of trouble, there is enormous trouble.
And Cromwell goes about collecting evidence against Anne.
I think other people are giving evidence too, because it's so nonsensical.
As good a lawyer as Cromwell would not have bothered with it.
But basically, there's this kind of explosion of tittle-tattle and gossip and
She's seen doing this and she's seen doing that.
Somebody says that she keeps her Paige Smeaton in a cupboard and that somebody fetches him for her to have sex with him when she asks for marmalade.
I mean, it's just impossible.
But because the mood against her is so strong, the ludicrous nature of the charges are not enough to prevent the Lords, including her uncle, including Jane Boleyn's father,
all the lords of the land sitting on her trial and finding her guilty and sentencing her to i think initially be burned as a witch subsequently commuted to be executed so it's an extraordinary show trial and george boleyn's trial comes thereafter and he's found guilty too of course you listen to dan snow's history hit the best is yet to come stick with us
I think he's excused from sitting on his daughter's trout, but her uncle's there.
Certainly the family turns out there.
He retires rather promptly, rather quietly to Hever Castle with his wife, Elizabeth, and keeps his head down.
And the survivor, the extraordinary survivor from this story is the heroine of my new novel, Bolin Traitor.
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