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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Absolutely.
Absolutely.
And also she brings with her property.
So they have by then Blickling Hall.
They buy Hever Castle later.
It's a reasonable match and it happens.
We're very familiar with it throughout the 18th and the 19th centuries when you see trade getting aristocratic ambitions and values from marriage and where you see aristocrats topping up their wealth through trade.
But there isn't that snobbery about it, I think, in this century in the way that there is later on.
So there's a real acceptance that this makes
complete sense for the two of them.
And they seem to be quite happily married.
There's no great scandal.
And they have three children, George first, and then Anne or Mary subsequently.
We're not even now entirely convinced which girl comes first.
And in my opinion, it's an historical fact, which would be nice to know, but it's not an historical fact that would make any difference to the story.
He is.
And of course, the white hot hope is George, who is the eldest son of this combination of aristocracy and wealth, whose father is a diplomatic court, who is young and handsome and fit and makes sure that he buddies up with the young Henry VIII.
and jousts with him and is one of the so-called minions, basically lads about all together.
And George is going to undoubtedly, as he gets older and more senior, take over a lot of the diplomatic roles.
But he'll do it with a bit more heft behind him because his father was a diplomat before him and he's personal friends with the King of England.
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