Hello everyone and welcome to the History of England, episode 233, Abedience.

We left Henry waiting anxiously for the news that his second wife had received the

application of the chop, which he duly received on the 19th of May. The 45-year-old Henry immediately

ordered the Royal Barge and the heavily-guilded boat slipped out onto the Thames and set off

up the river. Eventually it arrived at a grand house on the banks of the river at Chelsea.

Now Henry had been to Chelsea before, division at the house, a friend had then executed Thomas

Moore. Now however, he was visiting his latest squeeze, the 27-year-old Jane Seymour.

So today we're going to hear about the new queen and her family and spend the rest of

the podcast talking about the princess Mary and the fallout from Anne's fall. But before that,

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Okay, so back to it. Henry brought the news to Chelsea that Anne was indeed dead,

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