Anne of Cleves: The Queen Who Could Have Been
Tudors Dynasty & Beyond
RedTop Media / Rebecca Larson
4.4 • 869 Ratings
🗓️ 13 January 2026
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Anne of Cleves has long been reduced to a single moment: the “failed” marriage to Henry VIII. But what if that version of her story is incomplete?
In this episode, I’m joined by author Dr. James Taffe, whose book Accounting for Anne: The Tudor Queen Who Could Have Been uses Anne’s own surviving household accounts to reconstruct the queenship history usually skips over. Together, we explore what these records reveal about Anne’s daily life, her household, her spending, her relationships at court—and the hidden evidence of a woman doing far more than simply surviving.
If you’ve ever felt like Anne of Cleves deserved a second look… this is the episode for you.
Accounting for Anne is available on Amazon! Amazon-US
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Host: Rebecca Larson
Guest: Dr. James Taffe
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| 1:02.0 | This is the Tudors Dynasty and Beyond podcast, history with a twist. And now your host, Rebecca |
| 1:09.6 | Larson. Hello and welcome back to the show. |
| 1:12.5 | I'm your host, Rebecca Larson, and I am joined once again by a great friend of the show, Dr. James Taff. |
| 1:19.0 | Welcome back. |
| 1:20.7 | Thank you for having me back. |
| 1:22.4 | I can't keep away, apparently. |
| 1:23.8 | Oh, I love having you. |
| 1:25.4 | The last time you were on the show, it was on Dr. |
| 1:28.2 | Emma and me, and we talked about Jane Bolin and her father, and that was like totally |
| 1:34.7 | different episode than what I normally do with you on the show, wasn't it? And that feels like |
| 1:40.4 | it was just last week. I mean, I know it wasn't, but it honestly, it doesn't, the time is just flown. But yeah, I really enjoyed that episode and I kind of knew that this, |
| 1:49.2 | this book was coming out and I was thinking, well, Rebecca, have me back on so soon after the last |
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