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 there's this clear relationship
upward trajectory of the Boleyns, which they expect to really finalise and complete and confirm with George.
That's everything, yeah.
Absolutely, and trying to figure out where he'll go to university to send their girls there.
Yes, absolutely.
And of course, because Henry VIII himself comes to the throne so very young, he's not very much guided by older, wiser heads.
He's just picking the people who joust well and who he admires and who he likes.
So some of his friends are very unsuitable.
But George is not a particularly unsuitable young man and is married quite young in his 20s to a maid of honour, to Catherine of Aragon.
So she's at court as well.
Her father's lands run alongside George's.
They get her for a very, very, very cheap dowry because her father's not very astute.
And he marries Jane Parker, daughter of Lord Morley.
Absolutely.
And Mary Boleyn is at court as a maiden waiting to Catherine of Aragon.
And then she's married to Henry's friend, another friend of Henry's at court, quite young also, while Anne is in France.
I mean, as you say, it's a very close...
glamorous court.
It's a very young court.
There's no sign at this point of Catherine of Aragon's dowdiness and the hair shirt and general sorrow.
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