Hi, friend, and welcome back to the Renaissance English History Podcast, a part of the Agora Podcast Network, and the original Tudor history show telling stories of Tudor England since 2009.

I am your host, Heather.

I am, as always, delighted that you are here with me.

This is the start of May coming up.

And for many people in the Tudor world,

May is a month when we remember Anne Boleyn and Anne Boleyn's story.

And so this episode is about Anne, specifically about her pregnancies and her miscarriages.

So I want to throw out here a bit of a content warning, I guess, if you are sensitive to talk about miscarriages and pregnancy losses, you might want to give this one a skip.

But we're going to talk about her different pregnancies and kind of how Henry reacted and how the final miscarriage was really the final thing that did her in that made Henry really think that he needed to put her aside.

I've shared before on this podcast, gosh, in 2010, I lost a son and funny. It's not funny,

obviously, it's tragic, but I was doing this podcast already by that point, and I had talked

about it on the podcast. And even now,

people listen to it, you know, go back and listen, starting from the beginning and think it's very

recent. So I get these emails every once in a while that are like, I'm so sorry for your loss.

And I appreciate it, of course. But I think you didn't look at the date on that. That was from 15 years ago,

but obviously I appreciate it. And certainly this is, it's something that stays with you forever.

So I also just want to say that if you are dealing with pregnancy losses and miscarriages,

fertility stuff, I went through that myself. And I kind of sort of one of those sororities that you

don't really like to join, but the sorority itself is actually a very close-knit group of people.

And if you are in that and you want to talk about it, consider me a resource. I'm always here to

talk about the babies and the babies

that aren't here and the babies that were here and aren't now and all of that. So that's what we're

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