Synopsis
Jonathan Foyle discusses the circumstances that lead up to the beheading of Anne Boleyn.
- Programme: Henry VIII: Patron or Plunderer
- Episode: 2
- Channel: BBC Four
- Broadcast year: 2009
- History | Henry VIII and his ministers, 1509-50 | The Reformation and its impact, c.1520-c.1550 | The dissolution of the monasteries c.1534-c.1540
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