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Tudors Dynasty & Beyond

Off the Record: What if Anne Boleyn Never Married Henry VIII?

Tudors Dynasty & Beyond

RedTop Media / Rebecca Larson

History

4.4869 Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2026

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to the very first episode of Off the Record! Join Amy McElroy and Rebecca Larson as they dive into one of history’s biggest “what ifs”: what if Anne Boleyn had never married Henry VIII? Who might she have married instead - or would she have agreed to become Henry’s mistress? In this episode, they explore her options, share their thoughts, and enjoy a relaxed, off-the-record conversation about Tudor history together.

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Hosts:

Rebecca Larson

Amy McElroy

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is Off the Record.

0:03.0

Hello and welcome to Off the Record, our new Sunday show.

0:08.2

I'm Rebecca Larson and I'm joined by my good friend Amy McElroy.

0:12.6

Welcome, Amy.

0:14.1

Thank you.

0:15.0

Always happy to be here, especially starting off a new series.

0:19.2

I know.

0:20.2

I'm so excited about doing Off the record because I feel like this gives both of us the

0:25.6

opportunity to be kind of silly and talk about things that are relevant.

0:30.4

You know, I feel like we see so much stuff on social media where it's, it's fun.

0:36.9

It gets you thinking or talking about fun things. So this... where it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's

0:37.8

thinking or talking about fun things so this this series is this

0:42.6

going to be like historical what-ifs we're going to talk about like TV series

0:48.0

films historical fiction anything we want to really right yep

0:53.3

lots of laughing with it yes so you guys know i love

0:58.0

to laugh and amy enjoys laughing too so we're going to have a good time with this and we decided

1:04.4

for our first episode we're going to do a very popular subject and you know everybody knows who anne boleyn was everybody

1:13.2

knows i shalt hope so if you don't know who anne boleyn was i don't know why you're here

1:19.3

she is the most recognizable wife of henry the eighth um i often say that's probably because she was executed. Had she not been

1:30.7

executed, would we even know her name? Right. Good point. Yeah. Yeah. It does make one wonder,

1:38.3

doesn't it? But so today we're going to do a what if when it comes to Anne Boleyn because we were kind of

1:43.2

talking about what if she hadn't

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