What If Anne of Cleves Had Refused the Annulment?
Renaissance English History Podcast: A Show About the Tudors
Heather Teysko
4.6 • 624 Ratings
🗓️ 20 March 2026
⏱️ 21 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Now are all the traitors present? |
| 0:02.0 | Let's get started, shall we? |
| 0:04.0 | From rags to riches. |
| 0:06.0 | I'm so sick of this. |
| 0:07.0 | Working like a dog and being treated worse. |
| 0:09.0 | Yorkshire to New York. |
| 0:10.0 | Poor climbers, you and me. |
| 0:12.0 | A life dedicated to revenge. |
| 0:14.0 | Let's make this an occasion to remember. |
| 0:17.0 | A Woman of Substance on Channel 4. |
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| 0:37.7 | saving 20 pounds terms at Accardo.com. So we need to talk about Ann of Cleaves because I think |
| 0:43.4 | we've been telling her story a little bit wrong. The way she usually gets described is the lucky one. |
| 0:50.5 | She's the wife who survived, who got out with her head attached, and who landed on her feet. |
| 0:56.2 | And yes, technically all of that is true. |
| 0:59.8 | But here's also what we skip over when we tell it that way. |
| 1:03.6 | She was publicly declared as being repulsive by the most powerful man in England. |
| 1:09.1 | And that declaration was diplomatic news across the |
| 1:13.5 | entire continent. Every court in Europe heard about it. Her brother heard about it. This wasn't a |
| 1:20.6 | private rejection. It was a state announcement that the king of England found her so unappealing that he couldn't bring himself |
| 1:29.9 | to consummate the marriage. Of course, we look at it now and we're like, yeah, that was just Henry |
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