Philippa Gregory
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first heard Dec 2025
last heard 25 May
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who is Jane, Jane Parker, married to George, who is said by some people to have given evidence against him.
Her name isn't on the witness record.
I don't believe she actually gave sworn evidence, but she certainly, I think, reported to Thomas Cromwell.
of the atmosphere and the activities of the Queen's rooms.
So she's on, in a sense, Cromwell's side of history at this point.
And I'm sure of that because when the Boleyns dash back to Hever Castle and stay very quiet, actually until their deaths,
Jane is promoted to be Lady Jane Seymour's Lady-in-Waiting, Queen Jane Seymour's Lady-in-Waiting.
There's a special law passed in Parliament to improve her very bad dowry.
So she ends up owning Blickling Hall and being immensely independently wealthy.
And she is at Jane Seymour's side when she gives birth.
She's there at the christening of the baby prince, and she's there at Jane Seymour's funeral.
Of all the Boleyns, the one that we pay the least attention to is the one who literally rises like a phoenix out of these ashes and goes on to a brilliant career.
I mean, I think what we're saying is we noted earlier this sort of chivalric, we'll call it the historical term, folderol, generally dancing about and disguising and dressing up and wearing masks and kissing in corners and swearing eternal love and then fancying somebody the next day.
That's going on all the time.
I suggest in the novel Bolin Traitor that this gets more and more heated.
Because the urgency to tell the king that Anne is the sexiest woman in the palace becomes more and more serious as he starts looking at other women.
And as she starts becoming the very not sexy figure of a woman who cannot carry a baby, as opposed to being the very sexy figure of a woman who has not yet been seduced.
So I think the intensity of the compliments and the heat of the sex play gets worse.
more and more strong.
And in turn, that can be used very easily by Cromwell to say, this is a hotbed of misbehavior and adulterous promises.
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