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Feb 18, 2021 · Series 3 Episode 7. Protestant Anne of Cleves: Henry's marriage to Anne of Cleves threatens to come undone when he meets his bride. First shown: Thu 18 Feb 2021 | 50 mins.
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- February 18, 2021
- March 31, 2025
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May 17, 2009 · Protestant Anne of Cleves: Directed by Jeremy Podeswa. With Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Henry Cavill, James Frain, Joss Stone. Henry settles on Anne Of Cleves as his fourth wife but is disappointed with her attractiveness and blames Cromwell for his unhappy situation.
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Anne of Cleves was the fourth wife of King Henry VIII; it was a very brief marriage, to the astonishment of all observers but the relief of both spouses. Henry infamously referred to his bride as a Flanders mare and told courtiers and ambassadors that he could not perform his husbandly duties because of Annes appearance. Annes reaction to Henrys ph...
The kings poor and disrespectful treatment of his first wife (he was rumored to have bullied Katharine of Aragon to an unhappy death) and the quick end of his third (in his desperation for a healthy male heir, the king was rumored to have ordered Jane Seymour cut open, mangled and killed) only contributed to his low reputation.
One wouldnt think a king would have too difficult a time finding a wife, but Henry VIII who defied his contemporaries in so many other ways did so in this respect as well.
Henry had sought out Catholic princesses like Marie de Guise and his fifth wife would be a Catholic as well. Despite the Henrician reformation, England and its monarch remained a Catholic nation, albeit one in which supreme authority resided within the king rather than the pope. But Henrys influential advisor, Thomas Cromwell, wanted England to all...
During all of these negotiations, one must not forget the kings own views regarding his future wife. Henry was used to making his own decisions about the women in his life; he had high standards for female beauty and insisted his next wife be physically attractive. To that end, he told his ambassadors that no official overtures be made to certain l...
The year of 1538 passed with no alliance. Henry had intended to use his fourth marriage as a balance between France and the Hapsburg empire. But it now seemed as if those two enemies might join forces against him in defense of the papal supremacy. Suddenly Cromwells moment had arrived. The fourth serious contender was the sister of the duke of Clev...
Anne was 24 years old, and had spent most of her life at the ducal court of Dusseldorf. She was well-educated in domestic skills but she was neither intellectual or flirtatious, both qualities the king admired. She had no musical skills, and music was one of Henrys passions, and no interest in books. On the trip to England, her escort (perhaps sens...
What actually happened to drive Anne and Henry apart was a simple matter of attraction. Almost five hundred years later, we still dont understand why certain people are physically attracted to each other; it simply happens. And it didnt happen with Anne and Henry; in fact, quite the opposite occurred and the king was repulsed by her. Annes feelings...
And on New Years Day in the afternoon the kings grace with five of his privy chamber, being disguised with mottled cloaks with hoods so that they should not be recognized, came secretly to Rochester, and so went up into the chamber where the said Lady Anne was looking out of a window to see the bull-baiting which was going on in the courtyard, and ...
Henrys nobility, which had long chafed against the power and influence of Cromwell (much as they had against Wolsey), welcomed this opportunity to discredit him. The minister had pushed the king into the Cleves marriage, they reminded Henry gleefully. The kings wrath turned against his former friend and Cromwell was executed on 28 July 1540, a deci...
Luckily for her, she had only a small knowledge of English and even less knowledge of the physical relationship between a man and wife. Her English ladies were astounded by her innocence. When he [Henry] comes to bed, he kisses me and taketh me by the hand, and biddeth me Goodnight, sweetheart, and in the morning, kisses me, and biddeth me, Farewel...
Annes ignorance casts a bad light on her mother, Duchess Maria, but it served to protect her feelings in England.
Anne was perhaps as content with the arrangement as Henry. She grew to enjoy English ale and gambling; she spent large sums on gowns; she visited with the kings children and occasionally the king himself. She was heard to remark that she was more attractive than Katharine Parr, to whom the kings attention turned in 1543. In fact, upon Catherine How...
These rumors were understandable enough; Anne occupied a nebulous place in English society, unmarried but wealthy and independent. She was not an heiress but still honored as a royal. She answered to no male authority but that of the king, and he did not choose to trouble her. For the rest of her life, rumors spread about her lifestyle. For Annes p...
She made her last public appearance at Mary Tudors coronation in 1553, riding alongside the Princess Elizabeth. She died in 1557 of a declining illness and was buried with appropriate honor at Westminster Abbey. Her will is perhaps most representative of her kindly character. In it, she remembered gifts to everyone who had ever served her, no matte...
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Sep 24, 2017 · Listen to the Tudors Dynasty Podcast about Anne of Cleves here: Born on the 22nd of September 1515 in Dusseldorf, Anne of Cleves was the daughter of John III, Duke of Cleves and Maria of Julich Berg. Like Katherine of Aragon, Anne of Cleves had the grandest lineage of any of his other wives.
Henry's marriage to Jane Seymour is happy, fruitful and tragically short; the king brutally suppresses a rebellion against his religious reforms; England, Spain and the Pope ally against England, forcing Henry to marry a Protestant.
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Anne of Cleves is the ex-wife of Henry VIII, the princess of Cleves and the former queen of England. Initially, Henry is very reluctant to marry Anne, claiming that she looks like a horse, which is very odd, given the fact that Anne is quite beautiful, but he eventually weds her and even sleep...
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War looms with France and Spain aligning against England with backing from Rome, so Henry agrees to a politically fortuitous marriage with Anne of Cleves (Joss Stone), a plain and unsophisticated German aristocrat he has never met.
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