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The Most Unhappy Lady

BBC Home Service
on BBC Home Service Basic

An account of three critical years in the life of Mary Tudor, daughter of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon, and later Queen of England
Compiled from contemporary documents by Alison Plowden

In 1533 Henry VIII divorced Catherine of Aragon and married Anne Boleyn. Catherine and her daughter Mary, then seventeen, refused to accept the validity of the divorce and in consequence faced danger and disgrace.

(Broadcast on Dec. 22, 1964)

Contributors

Compiled by:
Alison Plowden
Producer:
Joe Burroughs
Mary Tudor:
Beryl Calder
Catherine of Aragon:
Catherine Salkeld
Charles Wriothesley:
Godfrey Kenton
Eustace Chapuys:
Simon Lack
Thomas Cromwell:
Alan Wheatley
Narrator:
Wilfrid Thomas
Source: Radio Times

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