Jane Seymour, alone of the ladies, does not move. The Boleyns have the sense to draw Anne backwards, backwards and away, Mistress Shelton and Jane Rochford flapping and tut-tutting, the whole Howard, Boleyn clan closing around her. His voice low and vehement: ‘Why not geld me while you are at it? That would suit you, would it not, madam?’įaces open in shock. Beckons her till her face is close to his own. But Anne has been unable to deliver Henry a son and heir, and Henry turns on Anne: He engineered Henry’s divorce from Catherine of Aragon, and his marriage to Anne Boleyn. Thomas Cromwell has risen from humble birth to a place as the King’s Master Secretary. Bring up the Bodies is set in 1535-36, when Henry is married to his second wife, Anne Boleyn. That’s how school children remember the fate of King Henry VIII’s six wives between 15. “Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived.”
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