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Welcome to Noble Blood, a production of IHeart Radio and Grim and Mild from Aaron Manky.

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Hello, this is Dana Schwartz, host of Noble Blood.

This is the last week of my maternity leave and the last episode in our series

Revisiting the Wives of King Henry VIII.

Today, we're talking about his final wife, the woman who survived

Catherine Parr. But Catherine's future, back when she was married to the king, was far from secure

and surviving Henry required cunning and the ability to manage a volatile and aging king.

Enjoy.

It was an incredibly dangerous thing to be a woman in the 16th century who disagreed with her husband.

A woman named Anne Askew was born in 1521 in Lincolnshire. When she was 15 years old,

her sister died. Her sister had been engaged to a man named Thomas Kime, and to save money on the dowries and

negotiations, Anne's father simply substituted Anne in to marry her sister's fiancé.

One daughter was as good as the next.

Thomas Kime was a Catholic, and he quickly realized that his young wife was a devout

Protestant. He would enter the room to find her studying the Bible or reciting verses quietly

to herself that she was trying to memorize. Anne publicly challenged the idea of transubstantiation, the notion that when taking Holy Communion,

the wafer and wine literally transformed into the flesh and blood of Christ.

Word got around town. Other women began avoiding Anne in the streets and the shops. Though Thomas

Kime and Anne had two young children, he kicked her out of the house for her beliefs. Anne was not

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