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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You have a lot of scenery.
You have a lot of moving, big, big scenery parts.
The castle, the Chateau Vert,
in this story is a wheeled in enormous structure with the ladies inside the castle defending the virtues and they are attacked by the king's men and they are defended by the king's choristers who throw sweets and little toys and little presents and the men finally capture the castle.
Everyone's disguised.
You've got this big, big, heavy emphasis upon disguises and everyone pretends not to know it's Henry.
until unmasking time when he takes his mask off and everybody goes like, good heavens, who is this handsome stranger?
It is the king.
And it's just playing with what they have anyway, which is privilege and wealth and youth and beauty.
It's just a celebration of that, which they do, I must say, over and over and over.
We know her part.
We know she's wearing a green gown.
She's a young married woman, but Henry takes her as his mistress and nobody complains about it very much at all.
In fact, nobody complains about it at all.
She has a baby who's called Catherine, which is a sort of bit of a backhanded compliment, you would think, to Catherine of Aragon, the queen, who she was a lady in waiting to.
Then she has another baby, Henry, named obviously for the king.
And we don't know to this day whether he is of the king's fathering, but he's never claimed by the king, who doesn't then know that he's not going to get loads more babies.
And he's accepted by her husband, Cary.
And so just when she's actually in childbed, in confinement, Anne takes the eye of the king and fundamentally seduces him from her sister, who is at that moment in bed giving birth to his son.
So it's a bit brutal in terms of sibling rivalry.
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