Six wives | 2. Anne Boleyn

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🗓️ 26 April 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Harlot, feminist, witch, backstabber, icon, powerplayer, victim – in the centuries since her execution, Anne Boleyn has been branded all of these. But what do we know about the real Anne and her story? In episode two of our new series on the dramatic marital history of England’s most notorious monarch, Ellie Cawthorne is joined by Dr Owen Emmerson and Dr Tracy Borman to uncover the rollercoaster story of the woman who set Tudor England ablaze. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Just Between Us, the podcast with all of the answers, some of the time.
0:05.0	A bit of a different thing going on this week.
0:07.3	You've been immature and you've lied.
0:10.3	And now you're trying to turn it on me and manipulate me and gaslight me.
0:13.9	I was trying to manipulate you.
0:15.7	Diana, you would be chucking their clothes out of the window.
0:18.1	I know, I'd be like, are you joking?
0:20.6	I don't know.
0:21.7	I guess you'd have to ask.
0:23.5	Someone that has sex.
0:24.3	Someone that has sex.
0:25.2	Right.
0:26.4	And remember, it's just between us.
0:31.3	The six wives are just such a fascinating story.
0:39.0	It's like a soap opera, but it's real and it happened.
0:42.4	Six is just a mad number of wives.
0:45.6	Because it was a really tumultuous time to be a queen.
0:49.5	England, everyone knows how Henry behaves, whether people who betray him
0:54.0	or just the people he thinks betrayed him.
0:57.0	You literally couldn't make it up. It's a story of such drama, twists and turns.
1:03.8	I think she deserves redemption, really, from how history has painted her out to be.
1:08.8	She was such a risk that the king had to go to unprecedented lengths to kill her.
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