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Divorced, beheaded, died.

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Divorced, beheaded, survived.

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The story of Henry VIII
and his six wives

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is one of the best-known
in history.

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There's Katherine of Aragon,
the bitter, abandoned first wife.

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Anne Boleyn,
the original other woman.

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Jane Seymour, bit of a doormat.

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Then you've got Anne of Cleves,
she was the ugly one.

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Katherine Howard,
the one who slept around.

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And Katherine Parr,
the saintly nurse.

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But I'm going to tell you
a very different story.

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I'm going to take you back in time

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and into the private lives
of Henry's six wives.

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I'm going to see the story
from their point of view.

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And I'll watch as events unfold.

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The fate of my soul
is no longer your concern.

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It will always be my concern.

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These events all really happened

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and were recorded in
historical documents, or reported

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by eyewitnesses.

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I asked for his head.

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Not his coat.

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They reveal six complex women
who lived in a dangerous age,

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as they struggle to survive
being married to Henry VIII.

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You are still prepared
to question me?

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Six wives whose names were tarnished
by Henry's propaganda machine.

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Six Queens whose stories
I want to re-examine.

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Is she here?

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I'll observe their life at court.

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I'll watch them romanced
by a charismatic king...

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Tell me you want the same.
Always.

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..who craves the company of women.

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The King is a very sociable man.

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I have here a warrant for the arrest
of Queen Katherine.

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I'll see how their reputations
are destroyed.

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I beg of you to tell the king that
my heart is filled with sorrow

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and assure him of my repentance.

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And lives cut short at the hands
of a ruthless, brutal man.

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Six children born.

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Five of them dead!

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This is the ultimate true story
of love, lust, and betrayal.

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Remember what happened
to my last wife and queen.

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Henry VIII's loyal first wife
Katherine of Aragon

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tried desperately to
give the king a male heir.

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I am afraid she has suffered
a loss of the child.

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Get out!

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Mary? Mother?

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After losing five children,
she had a daughter, Mary.

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But her failure to give him
a son angered her husband.

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He began to look elsewhere.

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Sent from Anne Boleyn with
her kindest regards, your Majesty.

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Henry became infatuated
with Anne Boleyn.

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And he made her a promise that
one day she would be his queen.

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The storm shall pass.

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If she has patience enough.

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Or the will to see it through.

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But he already had a queen.

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I have been a true, humble
and obedient wife.

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Henry was determined to marry Anne.

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But two people stood in his way.

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The Pope, and Katherine herself...

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who had no intention
of giving up her crown.

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The King has been trying
to end his marriage

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for more than two years.

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Increasingly impatient,

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he's now moved Anne Boleyn
into the royal palace at Greenwich,

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forcing Katherine of Aragon to live
side-by-side with his mistress.

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You are my one true husband.

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You brought me here
under false pretences.

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I assumed it was to discuss
a specific legal matter.

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Not to be caught up in
this futile, repetitious debate.

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You, sir, face eternal damnation.

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Not only of your own soul,
but all of your subjects.

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You cannot defy the Church
in this way.

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The fate of my soul
is no longer your concern.

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It will always be my concern.

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You are no longer Queen.
Accept this.

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SHOUT OF ANGER AND FRUSTRATION

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Your Majesty. My Lord.

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How was your meeting?

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Brief.

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And the last of its kind.

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It's 1530.

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One of the stranger moments
in English history,

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because the country's
got two queens.

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One of them, Katherine of Aragon,
is the crowned Queen of England,

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and lawful wife of Henry VIII.

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The other, Anne Boleyn.

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No Tudor woman has been mythologised
as much as Anne Boleyn.

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She's been accused of being
a seductress, an adulteress -

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even a witch.

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And because she was the other woman
in a previously happy marriage,

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she's had a pretty harsh press
from historians.

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It's the oldest cliche in the world.

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A sexy young thing
worming her way into a man's heart,

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and pushing out
his loyal first wife.

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True, Anne was clever,
and she was ambitious,

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but she also had little choice,

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because as soon as Henry
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he had to have her.

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Where Anne was different
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is that she set the terms,
by refusing to sleep with him.

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This only made Henry even keener.

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He thought that Anne could give
him everything that he wanted,

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including a son and heir,

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which poor old Katherine
could no longer do.

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To Henry's mind she was now old,
and past her best.

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She may once have been
his warrior queen,

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but now she was a bitter queen,

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standing between him and happiness.

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Henry decided to send Katherine
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He moved her and their 12-year-old
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to Windsor Castle.

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So where was Henry?

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Well, he was off with Anne Boleyn.

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They were travelling about, staying
in people's houses, going hunting,

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having dinner,
acting just like a married couple.

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Except for the fact
they weren't having sex.

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Now, Henry was in love with Anne,
but his subjects weren't.

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To them, Anne was "the other woman".

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When she appeared in public,
there was hooting and hissing,

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and some people called her
"the King's goggle-eyed whore".

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There's a story from round about
this time which shows just how much

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Anne was vilified.

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She was having dinner down
by the River Thames

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when she was set upon by a mob
of angry women.

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We're told that there were between
7,000 and 8,000 of them.

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So many that Anne had to escape
by boat.

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Now I don't think
it's particularly plausible

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that THAT many women all went
after Anne at the same time.

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But the story does show how much
the people of England hated her.

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Katherine, though,
remained hugely popular.

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Henry would need to get rid of her
for good.

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He sent word that he and Anne
were coming to Windsor to hunt,

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and that Katherine
would have to move again.

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And painfully for Katherine,

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he decided to split up
mother and daughter.

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Katherine will never be allowed
to return.

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And what's worse, she's not allowed
to take the Princess Mary with her.

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She will never see
her daughter again.

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The final humiliation will come

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when Katherine is ordered to give
back the Queen's crown jewels,

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so that Henry can give them to Anne.

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The Queen was unceremoniously
removed from Windsor

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and sent to the abbey
at St Albans.

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Mary was sent to Richmond Palace.

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After 22 years of marriage,
the King didn't even say goodbye.

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All this was calculated
to cause her maximum hurt

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and deliberately to insult her.

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This is something Henry did a lot.

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He dodged problems.

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With him, it was out of sight,
out of mind.

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He sent Katherine into exile

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so that he wouldn't have to deal
with her any more.

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After all, when they had arguments
face to face, she always won.

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She was much cleverer than he was.

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But nevertheless,
she remained his legal wife.

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With Katherine out of the way,

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Anne agreed to consummate
their relationship.

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Henry had been waiting for
seven long years for this moment.

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And they both knew that if Anne got
pregnant, he would have to marry her

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and make her Queen of England so
that any heir that she might produce

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would be born legitimate.

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However, there was still one man
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the head of the Catholic Church.

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After more than five years,
the Pope was still refusing

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to grant an annulment.

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Fortunately for Henry, though,
times were changing.

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A religious revolution
was unfolding in Europe.

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A rift was opening up between
the old traditional form

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of Christianity, Catholicism,
with the Pope at its head,

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and a new stripped-back form of
Christianity called Protestantism.

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The clue to Protestantism
lies in its name.

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It was originally a protest movement

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against the excesses
of the Catholic Church.

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Religious reformers wanted to change
the way that people worshipped God,

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with services held in their
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and churches led by themselves,
not by Rome.

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Anne was a strong supporter
of this movement for reform,

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and Henry too began to see
how this might work in his favour.

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He could be the head
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The new religion had many practical
advantages to offer him.

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So he joined this wider movement
to cut out the Pope,

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a movement that would allow people
to decide for themselves

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what God wanted them to do.

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And Henry decided that God wanted
him to leave his wife.

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So he chose to ignore the Pope
and to marry Anne.

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It's January the 25th, 1533.

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And a wedding
has been hastily arranged.

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You look breathtaking, my lady.

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Thank you.

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We should make our way.

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I can't seem to stop.

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It's to be expected.

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Particularly if the entire kingdom
harbours hatred towards me.

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No. No, my lady.

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The King is waiting.

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We must go.

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We must.

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So why is Henry getting married
so secretively?

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I'd call it furtive to do it
at dawn in such a small ceremony.

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The answer is that if his subjects
knew what Henry was up to,

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getting married like this
without the Pope's approval,

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many of them would still think that
he's committing the sin of bigamy.

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With the danger of excommunication
from the Church,

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and the damnation of his soul.

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But I believe
Henry HAS TO marry Anne,

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because she suspects
that she's pregnant.

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I will.

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Henry must be hoping that,
after all this time,

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Anne will now give him
the son he craves.

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With Henry and Anne at last married,

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and with his bride
carrying his heir -

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he was convinced
it would be a boy -

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the King was in a celebratory mood.

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Anne's coronation four months later

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was as public as her wedding
had been private.

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There was a grand procession

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along from the Tower of London
towards Westminster.

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Anne had her long dark hair down,

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and just a golden coronet
on her head,

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no veil - Henry wanted people
to be able to see her face.

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This was him saying,
"This is my wife.

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"She is your Queen.

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"And there's nothing that the Pope

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"or the people of England
can do about that."

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And when she arrived at
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Anne was crowned Queen.

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Huge crowds had turned out to
watch the ceremony,

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but the mood was grim.

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One eyewitness claims
that they showed themselves

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as sorry as if
it had been a funeral.

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The rightful Queen
had been banished.

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Anne was a pretender.

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It was a public scandal.

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But most important of all, Henry
had defied the Pope to marry her.

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And devout Catholics up and down
the country,

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but particularly those at court,
were all blaming Anne Boleyn.

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Yet Anne had achieved her goal.

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She was now Queen of England,

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but she'd also managed to make
some dangerous enemies at court.

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What's worse, now that
she was married to Henry,

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the power that she'd held over him
was beginning to slip away.

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Anne's about to enter confinement
for the last month of her pregnancy,

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and she expects Henry
to stay faithful to her

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while she's locked away.

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This should be the honeymoon period
of Henry and Anne's marriage.

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But Anne's learning very quickly

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that it's not easy being married
to King Henry VIII.

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I'm unclear, my lady, exactly
what it is you are asking of me.

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And I am unclear, my lord,

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as to why it is so difficult
for you to comprehend.

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I bestowed trust in my husband,

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and I expect that trust
to be honoured.

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Surely, that is not unreasonable?

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You are dissatisfied already
with me, madam?

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Of course not.

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I simply wish to protect our union,

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to enter confinement in
the knowledge that you hold it

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in the same esteem as I do.

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For you, my dearest, so well versed

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in respecting
the sanctity of marriage.

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HE CHUCKLES

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A king has his needs.

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But you are my queen.

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Mother of my heir.

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Your position is without question.

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Then surely I deserve your respect,
my lord.

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You are still prepared
to question me?

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If you wish to protect our union,
my lady,

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then allow me to make a suggestion.

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Look away.

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Now, from Henry's point of view,
this was quite straightforward.

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He was just acting
as any king should.

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Obviously, when his wife
was pregnant,

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he should get his needs
met elsewhere.

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But Anne wasn't going to put up
with this!

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Unlike Katherine, who'd overlooked
her husband's many indiscretions.

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After this particular argument,

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Henry and Anne didn't speak
to each other for several days.

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But Anne knew she had a trump card -
that baby in her belly.

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The King's doctors and astrologers

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were all saying it was going
to be a boy.

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This would set the seal
on Henry's dynasty

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and upon Anne's destiny.

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It's September 1533,
and Anne has given birth.

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The delivery was easy
and the child is healthy.

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But it's another disappointment
for Henry.

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The baby is another girl.

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This is the Princess Elizabeth.

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Her mother, Anne,
is absolutely besotted with her.

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Little do any of them know it,

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but this "disappointment"
will end up

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as one of the greatest monarchs
in English history -

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Queen Elizabeth I.

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But Anne hadn't solved
the King's problem.

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Henry needed a boy in addition
to his two daughters -

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Mary, from his first marriage,
and now Elizabeth.

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The girls wouldn't be able
to continue the Tudor name,

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and who knew if the country
would accept a female monarch?

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It hadn't been tried.

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So the pressure was now all on Anne.

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She only needed to look north
to the bleak Fenland countryside

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to see just how dismal
her fate might be

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if she failed to deliver
a male heir.

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Now in exile,
and out of public sight,

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Katherine was being made to suffer.

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It would suit Henry and Anne if
something were to happen to her.

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Henry's advisers had been constantly
moving her to more and more grim,

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and more and more
isolated residences.

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One of them was described as "the
most pestilential house in England".

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These places weren't healthy.

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They'd also been slowly
getting rid of her servants.

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Katherine was now in poor health,

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and had been separated
from Princess Mary

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for more than two years.

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She wrote heartfelt letters of
love and advice to her daughter,

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who was now 17.

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Despite her pleading, though, Henry
refused to let them see each other.

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But still, the people of England
hadn't forgotten Katherine.

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During one of these moves, the road
into Cambridgeshire, 24 miles of it,

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was lined with people who called out
her name as she passed.

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The people of England
still remembered their Queen.

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This is where Katherine
finally ended up,

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Kimbolton in Cambridgeshire.

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It was rebuilt in the 18th century,

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but it was then
a desolate medieval castle.

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Katherine's health was deteriorating

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in the cold and damp at
the edge of the Fens.

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She felt besieged.

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She became paranoid that somebody
was poisoning her food,

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and some of her faithful
ladies-in-waiting

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were forbidden from seeing her.

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Among them was Katherine's
oldest, closest friend,

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her fellow Spaniard
Maria De Salinas.

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It's January 1536.

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Am I too late?
Please tell me I am not too late.

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Maria has defied the King
to visit Katherine on her deathbed.

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My Lady De Salinas.
Mi senora.

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IN SPANISH:

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My Lord King...

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..and dearest husband.

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As the hour of my death
now approaches...

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..I wish for you to know...

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..that you have...

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my forgiveness.

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It is my final wish.

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I ask your grace...

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..to forgive me also,
to understand...

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..that my behaviour is born...

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..only from the grief
of our separation.

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A loss...

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..too great...

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..to endure.

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My eyes...

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..long for you above all else.

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Farewell.

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Katherine died six days later,

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without receiving a reply
to her final letter.

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She was 50 years old.

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She's been betrothed to Henry
since she was 17.

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She dedicated her whole life
to being Queen.

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And right to the end,
she remained immensely popular.

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People lined the streets to watch
her coffin being carried here,

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to Peterborough Cathedral
in Cambridgeshire.

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The King wasn't present
at Katherine's funeral,

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and neither was
their daughter, Mary.

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Henry refused to let her attend.

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But the service was packed with

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those who'd loved and respected
Katherine,

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including the ever-faithful
Maria De Salinas.

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Even today, people leave
pomegranates on Katherine's grave,

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the fruit from her personal emblem

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and a reminder of
her homeland in Spain.

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A lot of people think
of Katherine of Aragon

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as a grim-faced,
angry, rejected woman,

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but I don't think that
we should remember he like that.

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I prefer to think of her
as a fearless warrior queen.

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And don't forget -

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she was also Henry's first,
and his longest-lasting love.

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It's just days after
Katherine's death.

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Queen Anne is pregnant again.

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This should be
a time for celebration,

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but tensions are increasing
between the Royal couple.

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With his wife preoccupied by
the early stages of pregnancy,

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Henry's eye is free to wander.

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Your majesty. Madam.

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The Queen is sleeping.

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Should I wake her? No.

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Then I shall come and find you,
sire, as soon as she rises.

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There's no need.

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I shall wait here.

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That's if you don't object
to keeping me company?

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It would be my pleasure.

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The Queen has been feeling unwell
this morning.

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Hopefully, rest will be the cure.

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Perhaps.

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Although she's certainly
no stranger to rest.

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THEY CHUCKLE

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I'd like to thank you again
for my gift, your Grace.

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It was a most unexpected thing.

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Unexpected but...

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..welcome? Of course.

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00:28:13,000 --> 00:28:14,000
It is beautiful.

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As is the wearer.

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The woman sitting on the King's knee
is called Jane Seymour.

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You might recognise her,

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because she's one of Anne Boleyn's
ladies-in-waiting.

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And before that, she was one
of Katherine of Aragon's.

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My lady. How are you feeling?

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It's almost like Henry's gone out
of his way to humiliate his wife

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by having this brazen flirtation
with one of her servants.

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A few days later,
Anne miscarried her child.

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When Henry discovered,
he was too angry to speak about it,

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and there was one report that
he said scarcely anything to her,

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except that he clearly saw that God

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did not wish to give him
male children.

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I believe that this is the point
at which Henry began

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to turn against his wife.

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The spell was broken for Anne.

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Her power over Henry was
ebbing away,

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and Anne sensed this.

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The reason she'd had the
miscarriage, she told the King,

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is because she was upset.

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Her heart broke, she said,
when she saw that he loved others.

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After just three years of marriage
to Henry,

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Anne now had a rival.

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Jane Seymour was
young and attractive,

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and unlike Anne,
she seemed compliant and respectful.

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But the real reason
why Jane was such a threat

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was because she'd been
deliberately placed before the King

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by Anne Boleyn's enemies.

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The court was a hotbed of
different factions,

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all of them competing
for the attention of the King.

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One lot were
the religious reformers -

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they were very keen on
Henry's new church in England.

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But opposing them were
the religious conservatives.

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This lot were still secretly loyal
to the Pope,

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and they would've been very glad
to see the back of Anne Boleyn.

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But they had their own
secret weapon - Jane Seymour.

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They coached her in how to attract
Henry's attention,

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and it worked.

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Henry seemed to be falling in love
with Jane.

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It must be agonising for Anne.

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She's watching
a love affair unfolding

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between Jane Seymour and her
own husband before her very eyes.

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00:31:04,000 --> 00:31:07,000
Ironically, she's in exactly
the same position

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00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:10,000
as Katherine of Aragon
had been before her.

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Anne is feeling vulnerable
and nervous,

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and nervousness makes people
do strange things.

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So, Sir Henry...

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00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:24,000
..have you proposed marriage
to my cousin yet?

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00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:26,000
Not yet, your Grace.

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Poor Lady Margaret.

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00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:30,000
I have no ill feeling towards her.

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00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:34,000
I simply wish to...
bide my time a little.

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Such a gentleman.

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00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:39,000
Do you know what I think, Sir Henry?

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00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:42,000
No, my lady. But I feel sure
you're about to tell me.

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I think you look
for dead men's shoes.

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00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:51,000
A rich widow?
You think me so shallow?

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00:31:55,000 --> 00:31:56,000
Not just any rich widow.

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What I mean to say is this.

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That if something were to happen to
the King, you'd look to marry me.

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00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:08,000
Am I right?

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00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:12,000
Madam, I'm sure that if ever
I were to have even such a thought,

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that I would be in grave danger
of losing my head.

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00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:17,000
Well, remember, I could certainly
make that happen if I so wished it.

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I'm teasing you, sir!

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00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:23,000
Then perhaps we should
concern ourselves

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00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:26,000
with less gruesome thoughts
and return to the celebrations.

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00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:27,000
A very wise idea.

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00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:44,000
Anne should know that,
at the Tudor court,

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00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:48,000
conversations like this
don't stay private for very long.

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00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:56,000
The man Anne was talking to
was called Henry Norris,

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00:32:56,000 --> 00:33:01,000
and he was one of the King's most
trusted and intimate confidants.

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00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:05,000
Now, to talk about
the King's death was treason.

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00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:09,000
For Anne to talk about the King's
death to the King's closest friend

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00:33:09,000 --> 00:33:12,000
and then to suggest that
they might get married,

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00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:15,000
well, that seems absolutely bonkers.

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00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:19,000
So why did Anne do it?

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Was she arrogant enough to think
that she could get away with it?

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00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:26,000
Or was she really desperate
to feel desired once again?

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00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:29,000
I think the answer is neither.

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00:33:29,000 --> 00:33:32,000
I think the really unfair thing is

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00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:34,000
that Anne was only acting
in accordance

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00:33:34,000 --> 00:33:37,000
with the Code of Chivalry.

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This was a way of behaving
with which Henry was obsessed,

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00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:44,000
and according to chivalry a queen,
or a noble lady,

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was supposed to behave
kindly and graciously

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and flirtatiously
to humble young knights.

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00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:54,000
So by flirting with Henry Norris,

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Anne was only fulfilling
her job description.

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00:33:57,000 --> 00:33:58,000
The only thing I'll concede

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is that maybe fear made her go
too far.

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00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:11,000
Whatever her reasons,
Anne's ill-judged remark

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would have enormous repercussions.

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00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:18,000
By the next day,
everybody at court had heard

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00:34:18,000 --> 00:34:20,000
what Anne was supposed
to have said -

500
00:34:20,000 --> 00:34:22,000
including the King.

501
00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:25,000
Rumours were flying about that Anne

502
00:34:25,000 --> 00:34:27,000
had been having this affair
with Henry Norris,

503
00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:30,000
but also with other courtiers too.

504
00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:35,000
It was even said that she'd been
sleeping with her own brother.

505
00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:39,000
No matter how preposterous
the claims,

506
00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:42,000
Anne's enemies fuelled the rumours,

507
00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:45,000
and it suited Henry to believe them.

508
00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:48,000
He was now obsessed
with Jane Seymour,

509
00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:50,000
and he wanted to get rid
of his second wife.

510
00:34:52,000 --> 00:34:54,000
My lord, my lord.

511
00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:57,000
Pernicious gossip -
can you not see that?

512
00:34:57,000 --> 00:34:58,000
I cannot see everything.

513
00:34:58,000 --> 00:35:00,000
And that is why I employ
the greatest trust

514
00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:01,000
in those I keep close to me.

515
00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:03,000
And who closer than me?

516
00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:05,000
Those who have served me
for nearly their entire lifetimes.

517
00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:09,000
I am your loyal wife, my lord.

518
00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:11,000
Does that count for nothing?

519
00:35:11,000 --> 00:35:14,000
I could not do anything to hurt
or discredit you, I swear.

520
00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:16,000
My loyal wife...

521
00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:18,000
and trusted companion, Sir Henry...

522
00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:21,000
..in each other's arms.

523
00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:23,000
Lies! Witnessed by others.

524
00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:26,000
Good men who have
neither reason nor inclination

525
00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:27,000
to fabricate nonsense.

526
00:35:27,000 --> 00:35:30,000
How could I jeopardise all that
I have for so long desired?

527
00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:32,000
Only you hold the answer
to that question.

528
00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:35,000
Just think of our child.

529
00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:36,000
My lord.

530
00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:41,000
How long we have waited
to be together.

531
00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:43,000
You should heed your own advice,
madam.

532
00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:45,000
I do, my lord.

533
00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:47,000
And I would no more slight you
than I would harm a hair on the head

534
00:35:47,000 --> 00:35:49,000
of our sweet daughter, Elizabeth.

535
00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:51,000
Think of her, sire.

536
00:35:55,000 --> 00:35:56,000
Sire.

537
00:35:58,000 --> 00:35:59,000
I wish you to leave now.

538
00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:03,000
But if my lord could give me
a few precious minutes more,

539
00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:04,000
then I could...

540
00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:08,000
Leave, or I shall have you
dragged from here.

541
00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:20,000
Even after this really
horrible confrontation,

542
00:36:20,000 --> 00:36:24,000
Anne must still have had hopes
of salvaging her relationship.

543
00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:28,000
The very next day she attended
the May Day tournament,

544
00:36:28,000 --> 00:36:30,000
just as if nothing was wrong.

545
00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:35,000
And, in fact, this would be her
last public appearance as Queen.

546
00:36:36,000 --> 00:36:38,000
As the King was riding away from
the joust,

547
00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:40,000
he went with Henry Norris,

548
00:36:40,000 --> 00:36:42,000
and he questioned him closely

549
00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:45,000
about what he might have been up to
with his wife.

550
00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:49,000
Henry Norris denied
all wrongdoing, but nevertheless,

551
00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:52,000
he was arrested
and sent to the Tower.

552
00:36:52,000 --> 00:36:55,000
And the King's men
were coming for Anne too.

553
00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:09,000
The following day, after three
tempestuous years of marriage,

554
00:37:09,000 --> 00:37:12,000
Anne was arrested.

555
00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:14,000
She was taken by boat
from Greenwich,

556
00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:17,000
up the river to the Tower of London.

557
00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:24,000
Henry didn't see her again, either
to confront her, or say goodbye.

558
00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:27,000
Just as he had
with Katherine of Aragon,

559
00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:30,000
he let other people
do his dirty work.

560
00:37:41,000 --> 00:37:43,000
Anne was accused of treason,

561
00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:47,000
and of committing adultery
with five male courtiers,

562
00:37:47,000 --> 00:37:49,000
including her own brother, George.

563
00:37:51,000 --> 00:37:54,000
Anne was frightened about
where exactly they were taking her.

564
00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:58,000
"Shall I go into a dungeon?"
she asked.

565
00:37:58,000 --> 00:37:59,000
But the guard said no,

566
00:37:59,000 --> 00:38:01,000
they were taking her
to the Royal apartments,

567
00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:06,000
where she'd stayed the night
before her own coronation.

568
00:38:06,000 --> 00:38:09,000
When she heard this,
Anne cried with relief.

569
00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:11,000
"It is too good for me," she said.

570
00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:14,000
"Jesus have mercy upon me."

571
00:38:14,000 --> 00:38:17,000
It's at this point that we begin
to see Anne's terror.

572
00:38:23,000 --> 00:38:25,000
Anne's own servants were dismissed,

573
00:38:25,000 --> 00:38:29,000
and she was given five
new ladies-in-waiting.

574
00:38:29,000 --> 00:38:32,000
But really, they were spies.

575
00:38:32,000 --> 00:38:35,000
Every single word that Anne said
was fed back to the King.

576
00:38:35,000 --> 00:38:39,000
The ladies reported that
Anne was growing hysterical,

577
00:38:39,000 --> 00:38:42,000
sometimes crying,
sometimes laughing.

578
00:38:42,000 --> 00:38:45,000
She even made a joke that
history would know her

579
00:38:45,000 --> 00:38:48,000
as Queen Anne the Headless.

580
00:38:50,000 --> 00:38:52,000
The five accused men,

581
00:38:52,000 --> 00:38:54,000
including her brother
and Henry Norris,

582
00:38:54,000 --> 00:38:58,000
were quickly found guilty
and executed.

583
00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:02,000
Anne has also been found guilty.

584
00:39:02,000 --> 00:39:04,000
Of treason.

585
00:39:05,000 --> 00:39:07,000
And the punishment is death.

586
00:39:09,000 --> 00:39:12,000
But, for me, there's a compelling
piece of evidence

587
00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:15,000
that points to her innocence.

588
00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:17,000
Anne has asked to see a priest,

589
00:39:17,000 --> 00:39:20,000
Thomas Cranmer,
the Archbishop of Canterbury.

590
00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:35,000
You wish to take the holy sacrament
of confession, my Lady?

591
00:39:52,000 --> 00:39:54,000
My Lord God.

592
00:39:56,000 --> 00:39:58,000
I am heartily sorry
for having offended you.

593
00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:01,000
I detest all of my sins

594
00:40:01,000 --> 00:40:03,000
because I fear the loss of heaven,
and the pains of hell.

595
00:40:05,000 --> 00:40:07,000
But most of all,
because I offend you,

596
00:40:07,000 --> 00:40:09,000
my God,

597
00:40:09,000 --> 00:40:11,000
who is all good,
and deserving of all my love.

598
00:40:15,000 --> 00:40:17,000
But I kneel before you now
to protest my innocence

599
00:40:17,000 --> 00:40:19,000
of the crimes I am accused.

600
00:40:22,000 --> 00:40:24,000
I have ever been a faithful wife
to the King.

601
00:40:26,000 --> 00:40:28,000
Though I do not say I have always
shown him that humility

602
00:40:28,000 --> 00:40:30,000
that his goodness merited.

603
00:40:31,000 --> 00:40:34,000
I confess that
I have had jealous fancies

604
00:40:34,000 --> 00:40:37,000
and suspicions of him that I had not
discretion nor wisdom to conceal

605
00:40:37,000 --> 00:40:39,000
at all times.

606
00:40:43,000 --> 00:40:46,000
But as for my brother...

607
00:40:46,000 --> 00:40:48,000
and those others unjustly
condemned...

608
00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:53,000
..I shall willingly accompany them
into heaven with this assurance.

609
00:40:55,000 --> 00:40:58,000
That I shall lead an endless life
with them in peace and joy,

610
00:40:58,000 --> 00:41:01,000
where I shall pray to God
for the King.

611
00:41:04,000 --> 00:41:05,000
May the Lord have mercy on my soul.

612
00:41:09,000 --> 00:41:13,000
This is everything you wish to say?

613
00:41:14,000 --> 00:41:16,000
God knows, and is my witness

614
00:41:16,000 --> 00:41:19,000
that I have not sinned against him
in any other way.

615
00:41:25,000 --> 00:41:28,000
Anne believes,
all Tudor people believe,

616
00:41:28,000 --> 00:41:31,000
that if she tells a lie
in confession,

617
00:41:31,000 --> 00:41:34,000
she damns her soul
to eternal torment.

618
00:41:35,000 --> 00:41:40,000
So when she says she's innocent,
in those extreme circumstances,

619
00:41:40,000 --> 00:41:42,000
I think we have to believe her.

620
00:41:47,000 --> 00:41:49,000
Anne's husband, Henry,
had loved her so much

621
00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:54,000
that he changed a country's religion
so that he could have her.

622
00:41:54,000 --> 00:41:59,000
But now he's tired,
he's frustrated by her.

623
00:41:59,000 --> 00:42:03,000
Anne's real crime is to have failed
to give the King a son,

624
00:42:03,000 --> 00:42:07,000
and to have become difficult
to live with.

625
00:42:09,000 --> 00:42:11,000
That's why she has to die.

626
00:42:53,000 --> 00:42:56,000
All this for so little a neck.

627
00:43:31,000 --> 00:43:35,000
Anne Boleyn's beheading
on the 19th of May 1536

628
00:43:35,000 --> 00:43:39,000
was the first execution
of a queen in English history.

629
00:43:41,000 --> 00:43:45,000
The country shed few tears for Anne,
and her enemies rejoiced.

630
00:43:47,000 --> 00:43:49,000
Her body was brought to
the small chapel

631
00:43:49,000 --> 00:43:51,000
that lies within
the Tower of London.

632
00:43:54,000 --> 00:43:57,000
This is where Anne is buried.

633
00:43:57,000 --> 00:44:01,000
She really has been one of history's
most controversial figures.

634
00:44:01,000 --> 00:44:05,000
For much of the last 500 years,
she has been vilified as a schemer,

635
00:44:05,000 --> 00:44:08,000
a predator, even as a witch.

636
00:44:08,000 --> 00:44:12,000
But from the vantage point
of the 21st century,

637
00:44:12,000 --> 00:44:14,000
it looks very different.

638
00:44:14,000 --> 00:44:16,000
She seems like one of us.

639
00:44:16,000 --> 00:44:20,000
She used wit and willpower
to get what she wanted.

640
00:44:20,000 --> 00:44:23,000
At first,
this worked very well for Anne.

641
00:44:23,000 --> 00:44:26,000
But ultimately, the Tudor court

642
00:44:26,000 --> 00:44:29,000
was a dangerous place to be
for an ambitious woman.

643
00:44:31,000 --> 00:44:35,000
In the end, she was the victim
of her own strength,

644
00:44:35,000 --> 00:44:38,000
as well as the victim of
the pitiless King.

645
00:45:13,000 --> 00:45:17,000
As soon as he received the news
of Anne's execution,

646
00:45:17,000 --> 00:45:19,000
Henry went off to see Jane.

647
00:45:19,000 --> 00:45:22,000
And 11 days later, he married her,

648
00:45:22,000 --> 00:45:26,000
his third Queen,
at Whitehall Palace.

649
00:45:26,000 --> 00:45:28,000
He didn't waste any time, did he?

650
00:45:28,000 --> 00:45:33,000
Preparations for the wedding had
begun even before Anne was dead.

651
00:45:38,000 --> 00:45:41,000
Jane was 27 and a devout Catholic.

652
00:45:43,000 --> 00:45:46,000
Her family and
her Catholic supporters

653
00:45:46,000 --> 00:45:49,000
hoped she might steer Henry
back to the old religion,

654
00:45:49,000 --> 00:45:52,000
but I think Jane decided to take
a different approach

655
00:45:52,000 --> 00:45:54,000
now she was Queen.

656
00:45:54,000 --> 00:45:55,000
And here's the clue.

657
00:45:55,000 --> 00:45:59,000
The motto she chose
was "bound to obey and serve".

658
00:46:02,000 --> 00:46:05,000
Jane Seymour was
your typical English rose.

659
00:46:05,000 --> 00:46:09,000
Just look at her pale skin,
the strawberry-blonde hair,

660
00:46:09,000 --> 00:46:12,000
her lovely rosy cheeks.

661
00:46:12,000 --> 00:46:14,000
But English roses aren't
very exciting, are they?

662
00:46:17,000 --> 00:46:21,000
And Jane's pale appearance does
seem matched by her pale character.

663
00:46:21,000 --> 00:46:24,000
She's curiously passive,

664
00:46:24,000 --> 00:46:27,000
and I think that this
was a clever choice -

665
00:46:27,000 --> 00:46:30,000
to be the absolute polar opposite
of Anne Boleyn,

666
00:46:30,000 --> 00:46:33,000
who was a bit too exciting
for her own good.

667
00:46:33,000 --> 00:46:35,000
I think I might do exactly
the same thing

668
00:46:35,000 --> 00:46:37,000
if I were married to Henry VIII -

669
00:46:37,000 --> 00:46:41,000
to pretend to be meek and mild,
even if I wasn't,

670
00:46:41,000 --> 00:46:44,000
so as not to annoy him,
and to stay alive.

671
00:46:46,000 --> 00:46:48,000
After so much upheaval,

672
00:46:48,000 --> 00:46:51,000
a period of calm descended
upon the Royal household.

673
00:46:52,000 --> 00:46:56,000
Importantly, Jane was a peacemaker.

674
00:46:56,000 --> 00:47:00,000
She improved Henry's relationship
with his children.

675
00:47:00,000 --> 00:47:04,000
For a long time, he'd been estranged
from his daughter, Mary.

676
00:47:04,000 --> 00:47:06,000
Mary was now 20,

677
00:47:06,000 --> 00:47:09,000
and Henry had even made her sign
a piece of paper

678
00:47:09,000 --> 00:47:11,000
saying that
her own mother's marriage

679
00:47:11,000 --> 00:47:15,000
had been incestuous and unlawful.

680
00:47:15,000 --> 00:47:22,000
But now, in 1536, Jane persuaded
Henry to meet Mary once again.

681
00:47:22,000 --> 00:47:26,000
So Henry's family life, for once,
was going smoothly.

682
00:47:26,000 --> 00:47:29,000
But meanwhile, out in the country,

683
00:47:29,000 --> 00:47:35,000
a great big wave of political and
religious change was about to break.

684
00:47:35,000 --> 00:47:36,000
And this was the moment

685
00:47:36,000 --> 00:47:40,000
when Jane's obedience
to the King would be tested.

686
00:47:42,000 --> 00:47:45,000
England was a country divided,

687
00:47:45,000 --> 00:47:48,000
split between the new reformers
and the Catholics.

688
00:47:48,000 --> 00:47:52,000
Hundreds of monasteries,
all around the country,

689
00:47:52,000 --> 00:47:53,000
kept the old faith alive.

690
00:47:55,000 --> 00:47:57,000
To Henry and his advisers,

691
00:47:57,000 --> 00:48:01,000
these monasteries represented
a challenge to his authority.

692
00:48:01,000 --> 00:48:03,000
They were still answerable
to the Pope.

693
00:48:04,000 --> 00:48:07,000
Also, they were
fantastically wealthy.

694
00:48:07,000 --> 00:48:10,000
Henry had fought a lot of wars,
he'd built a lot of palaces,

695
00:48:10,000 --> 00:48:12,000
he was short of cash.

696
00:48:12,000 --> 00:48:13,000
Hmmm...

697
00:48:15,000 --> 00:48:19,000
In 1536, the King ordered
that they be pulled down,

698
00:48:19,000 --> 00:48:22,000
and their assets seized.

699
00:48:22,000 --> 00:48:26,000
For many people, this destruction
felt like a sort of apocalypse.

700
00:48:26,000 --> 00:48:30,000
It destroyed the fabric
of their world.

701
00:48:30,000 --> 00:48:34,000
And the dissolution of the
monasteries led to rebellion.

702
00:48:34,000 --> 00:48:37,000
One particular rebellion,
called the Pilgrimage of Grace,

703
00:48:37,000 --> 00:48:39,000
started in the East Midlands.

704
00:48:39,000 --> 00:48:41,000
It spread to the north

705
00:48:41,000 --> 00:48:45,000
and it culminated with
a bloody uprising in York.

706
00:48:49,000 --> 00:48:52,000
Jane's stepdaughters,
Mary and Elizabeth,

707
00:48:52,000 --> 00:48:54,000
were brought back to the court
in London

708
00:48:54,000 --> 00:48:57,000
to avoid them getting caught up
in the uprising.

709
00:48:57,000 --> 00:48:59,000
Mary, in particular, was in danger,

710
00:48:59,000 --> 00:49:01,000
because, as the daughter of

711
00:49:01,000 --> 00:49:04,000
the staunchly Catholic
Katherine of Aragon,

712
00:49:04,000 --> 00:49:07,000
the rebels would have loved
to use her as a figurehead.

713
00:49:07,000 --> 00:49:09,000
Henry was determined
to prevent this.

714
00:49:16,000 --> 00:49:20,000
The religious tension
playing out across the country

715
00:49:20,000 --> 00:49:23,000
is also being felt
within the palace walls.

716
00:49:25,000 --> 00:49:27,000
Princess Mary has just returned
to court

717
00:49:27,000 --> 00:49:30,000
under the protective wing
of her stepmother.

718
00:49:30,000 --> 00:49:33,000
She has to tread carefully
around her father,

719
00:49:33,000 --> 00:49:35,000
who she barely knows.

720
00:49:40,000 --> 00:49:41,000
What have you been doing today?

721
00:49:41,000 --> 00:49:43,000
Tell me. Riding, sir.

722
00:49:44,000 --> 00:49:47,000
Some needlework. A little music.

723
00:49:47,000 --> 00:49:49,000
Pardon? Music, sir.

724
00:49:50,000 --> 00:49:51,000
The lute.

725
00:49:51,000 --> 00:49:54,000
Very good.
Mary is extremely gifted, my lord.

726
00:49:55,000 --> 00:49:57,000
Almost a match for her father.

727
00:49:57,000 --> 00:50:01,000
Is she now?
You must play for me again.

728
00:50:01,000 --> 00:50:03,000
It's been a long time.

729
00:50:03,000 --> 00:50:04,000
Of course.

730
00:50:04,000 --> 00:50:07,000
It would be a pleasant distraction
from the foolishness in York.

731
00:50:09,000 --> 00:50:12,000
I've heard talk at court.

732
00:50:12,000 --> 00:50:15,000
These men wish to see us
slaughtered.

733
00:50:15,000 --> 00:50:17,000
They are churchmen, not murderers.

734
00:50:19,000 --> 00:50:20,000
They are simply protesting.

735
00:50:21,000 --> 00:50:23,000
You sympathise with them?

736
00:50:24,000 --> 00:50:26,000
I can understand their allegiance
to their faith.

737
00:50:27,000 --> 00:50:30,000
They are much attached to
their monasteries in the north.

738
00:50:31,000 --> 00:50:33,000
You do sympathise, then?

739
00:50:34,000 --> 00:50:36,000
My concerns are for you alone,
my lord.

740
00:50:37,000 --> 00:50:38,000
For your soul.

741
00:50:44,000 --> 00:50:46,000
If I upset you, sire,
then I beg your pardon.

742
00:50:48,000 --> 00:50:52,000
I only wish to offer my counsel
as your devoted wife and queen.

743
00:50:52,000 --> 00:50:54,000
And so I would urge you
to tread carefully.

744
00:50:57,000 --> 00:50:59,000
Remember what happened
to my last wife and queen.

745
00:51:06,000 --> 00:51:08,000
What Jane was doing was fulfilling

746
00:51:08,000 --> 00:51:12,000
another of these recognisable roles
of a Tudor Queen.

747
00:51:12,000 --> 00:51:17,000
In this case, asking for mercy
on behalf of the powerless.

748
00:51:17,000 --> 00:51:21,000
Jane also thought it was here duty
as a devout Catholic

749
00:51:21,000 --> 00:51:24,000
to petition the King for a cause
she believed in.

750
00:51:24,000 --> 00:51:27,000
Although this was a brave thing
to do,

751
00:51:27,000 --> 00:51:29,000
Jane was wise to back off
when she saw

752
00:51:29,000 --> 00:51:32,000
that she'd pushed the King too far.

753
00:51:32,000 --> 00:51:37,000
But she did do absolutely everything
else that Henry asked of her,

754
00:51:37,000 --> 00:51:40,000
including the most important thing
of all.

755
00:51:46,000 --> 00:51:51,000
On the 12th of October 1537,
after a long labour

756
00:51:51,000 --> 00:51:53,000
lasting two days and three nights,

757
00:51:53,000 --> 00:51:55,000
Jane gave birth.

758
00:51:57,000 --> 00:51:58,000
It was a boy.

759
00:51:58,000 --> 00:52:02,000
Henry had a healthy, legitimate son
at last.

760
00:52:02,000 --> 00:52:05,000
It had taken him three wives
to get to this point.

761
00:52:05,000 --> 00:52:08,000
Three days later,
baby Prince Edward,

762
00:52:08,000 --> 00:52:10,000
this new hope of the Tudor dynasty,

763
00:52:10,000 --> 00:52:14,000
was christened here in
the Chapel Royal at Hampton Court.

764
00:52:21,000 --> 00:52:24,000
It's 12 days since the birth
of Prince Edward,

765
00:52:24,000 --> 00:52:26,000
and the nation is still celebrating.

766
00:52:33,000 --> 00:52:36,000
But Jane is taking longer
than expected to recover.

767
00:52:41,000 --> 00:52:43,000
Somebody fetch more cold water.

768
00:52:53,000 --> 00:52:54,000
Can you hear me?

769
00:52:59,000 --> 00:53:00,000
You are still here.

770
00:53:02,000 --> 00:53:04,000
My sweet lady,
where else would I be?

771
00:53:06,000 --> 00:53:07,000
Where is our son?

772
00:53:34,000 --> 00:53:35,000
He is thriving?

773
00:53:37,000 --> 00:53:38,000
Very much so.

774
00:53:39,000 --> 00:53:41,000
A more contented child
I've yet to meet.

775
00:53:44,000 --> 00:53:47,000
He must know how much
his mother loved him.

776
00:53:50,000 --> 00:53:51,000
You will tell him, my lord.

777
00:53:56,000 --> 00:53:59,000
I do not give up hope that
you may tell him yourself.

778
00:53:59,000 --> 00:54:01,000
Many times.

779
00:54:15,000 --> 00:54:18,000
Lord God, why must you punish me
this way?

780
00:54:28,000 --> 00:54:32,000
Jane Seymour never recovered from
the infection she contracted

781
00:54:32,000 --> 00:54:35,000
after the long and difficult birth
of Prince Edward.

782
00:54:36,000 --> 00:54:41,000
She died on
the 24th of October 1537.

783
00:54:44,000 --> 00:54:47,000
Henry genuinely grieved for Jane.

784
00:54:47,000 --> 00:54:50,000
He wrote about his bitterness,

785
00:54:50,000 --> 00:54:54,000
and it was said that he retired
to a solitary place

786
00:54:54,000 --> 00:54:55,000
to see to his sorrows.

787
00:54:55,000 --> 00:54:58,000
Jane had been the perfect wife
for him.

788
00:54:58,000 --> 00:55:00,000
She hadn't bothered him.

789
00:55:00,000 --> 00:55:03,000
She'd given him what he wanted,
a son.

790
00:55:03,000 --> 00:55:05,000
Who knows what would have
happened next,

791
00:55:05,000 --> 00:55:07,000
because they had only been
married for 16 months.

792
00:55:07,000 --> 00:55:10,000
There's a sense that he hadn't had
time to get bored of her.

793
00:55:12,000 --> 00:55:16,000
To me, Jane Seymour was a queen
who played a canny hand.

794
00:55:16,000 --> 00:55:19,000
By acting exactly like the wife
that Henry wanted,

795
00:55:19,000 --> 00:55:23,000
she became his most-loved queen.

796
00:55:32,000 --> 00:55:36,000
When Henry died, he chose
to be buried alongside her,

797
00:55:36,000 --> 00:55:39,000
here in St George's Chapel, Windsor.

798
00:55:41,000 --> 00:55:44,000
But that wouldn't be
for some time yet.

799
00:55:44,000 --> 00:55:47,000
Henry still had three wives to go.

800
00:55:51,000 --> 00:55:54,000
The ageing and
increasingly overweight King

801
00:55:54,000 --> 00:55:56,000
will struggle
to find a fourth wife.

802
00:55:59,000 --> 00:56:02,000
And a blind date
will prove a disaster.

803
00:56:02,000 --> 00:56:04,000
IN GERMAN:

804
00:56:08,000 --> 00:56:12,000
History will forever judge
this Queen on her looks,

805
00:56:12,000 --> 00:56:14,000
ignoring her gift for diplomacy

806
00:56:14,000 --> 00:56:17,000
that will make her one
of England's richest women.

807
00:56:17,000 --> 00:56:19,000
A nice tight grip on the shaft.

808
00:56:20,000 --> 00:56:21,000
Madam, this is an outrage.

809
00:56:21,000 --> 00:56:24,000
Ambassador Haas, this is King Henry.

810
00:56:26,000 --> 00:56:27,000
Oh, very good.

811
00:56:27,000 --> 00:56:30,000
And the 50-year-old King's
relationship

812
00:56:30,000 --> 00:56:32,000
with a teenage lady-in-waiting

813
00:56:32,000 --> 00:56:36,000
will lead to lurid tales
of adultery and treachery.

814
00:56:38,000 --> 00:56:40,000
I thought you were
one of the King's men.

815
00:56:40,000 --> 00:56:43,000
I am. His Majesty's most loyal
and faithful servant.

816
00:56:43,000 --> 00:56:46,000
And I'll reveal that this will be

817
00:56:46,000 --> 00:56:49,000
the most disturbing story
of them all.

818
00:56:49,000 --> 00:56:51,000
Did you lie with Dereham?

819
00:56:51,000 --> 00:56:53,000
Yes, my lord. I see.

820
00:56:54,000 --> 00:56:56,000
The choice to lie with him
was not mine.

821
00:56:58,000 --> 00:56:59,000
I was a child.

822
00:57:31,000 --> 00:57:34,000
You are charged with
the murder of Mrs Emily French.

823
00:57:34,000 --> 00:57:35,000
How do you plead?

824
00:57:39,000 --> 00:57:40,000
We have been asked to send
a small working party out there.

825
00:57:40,000 --> 00:57:41,000
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826
00:57:41,000 --> 00:57:44,000
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