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Episode 47 and of Cleaves, the second choice.

One of the most commonly asked questions whenever you tell someone that you're an enthusiast of Henry

the 8th and his six wives, something I'm sure that many of you must say on a daily basis, is this?

Who's your favourite?

Indeed, the website Tudor Times recently did a straw poll of various Tudor experts and writers

and asked them all

who their favourite was. I've put a link to it in the show notes. Catherine of Aragon is the

traditionalist choice. Anne Boleyn is the feminist's choice. Catherine Parr is the mature

choice. Catherine Howard is really no one's choice. Anne of Cleaves though, she, I would argue, is the hipster choice.

She's the one that people say when they want to sound different, intelligent. The queen you like,

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