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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We don't know how much it's an agreement among all the Howards that there should always be a Howard girl
in the king's eye because that is the route to power and influence and popularity at court.
But certainly by then, George becomes less the golden boy in the hope of the Boleyns and more and more the assistant and supporter and protector and promoter of first one sister and then another.
So from George's point of view, it's a bit of a miserable downsizing.
from their point of view, it doesn't really matter.
As long as in this court, which is entirely focused upon one man, a young man, and the whims of a young man, all that matters is that he thinks that your family is the best thing since... Odd for George, Thomas, the dad, he's promoted at this time, isn't he?
Yeah, he's a talented guy, but you see that he gets grants of lands.
Firstly, when Mary starts sleeping with Henry, and then he gets a big grant of lands when she has her baby.
Then there's another grant of lands and titles when she has her second baby.
And then when Anne takes his eye, you then have basically Anne being part of policymaking and the first...
Sorts of things she puts in place is the suggestion that the king should be able to get a divorce from Catherine of Aragon.
She is absolutely determined that she's not going to be his mistress as Anne was.
She sets her heart with extraordinary ambition on being his wife.
He really does.
There's a period of time when everybody gets the sweat and actually Mary Boleyn's husband dies in the sweat and Anne has it and is desperately ill.
And Henry doesn't see her because he's completely then and thereafter paranoid about his health.
He's terrified about being sick.
But he sends her a stream of letters promising eternal love and hoping desperate for her health.
He sends her his own position.
It's very, very clear that this is a man.
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