Episode 2.09

Synopsis

• Anne has lost a son and with it her last chance at a lasting marriage with Henry. The King's affections are shifting anyway: the Seymour family are awarded rooms at court and seem likely to replace the Boleyns as royal favourites. Several in the court begin to move against Anne who is accused of adultery. Arrests are made of suspected lovers and of Anne herself. All, including the Queen, are sentenced to death.
  

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Best Moments

• When Anne Boleyn chastises Cromwell for selling off the profits from the Dissolution of the Monasteries to courtiers, saying "Our Reformation was never meant to be about personal gain, religious houses should not be sold off but converted to better uses"
• Henry gives Jane Seymour a locket with his portrait in it, which Anne sees and rips from Jane's neck and is eventually returned back to Jane by Madge Sheldon.
• The way the Boleyns bombed their chance to make diplomatic alliances with both Ambassador Chapyus and the Ambassador of Milan (calling the French liars, while they were depending on French protection from an eminent war with Spain)
• Cromwell's "questioning" / badgering of Anne's ladies-in-waiting to give names of the men she committed adultery with, Jane Rochford cooperation with Cromwell
• Brereton's arrest as he was praying naked in front of a crucifix
• Cromwell convinces Cranmer to abandon their support of Anne as their great ally in the Reformation in order to survive to fall of the Boleyn faction
  

Best Quotes

• "The child had the appearance of a male about 4 months old. However, the fetus, there were signs of deformity, of abnormality. Perhaps after all, the Queen's miscarriage was a blessing in disguise."
• "Thank you. I will treasure this all my life. And if they ever open my grave, they will find it again, right next to my heart."
• "Let me tell you something, Lady Rochford. The King cannot satisfy a woman. He has neither the skill nor the virility."
• " As your oldest friend as well as your most loyal subject, I feel it my duty, however painful, to report some truths to you. There are some rumors about the Queen's behavior. It seems she entertains men in her room nightly, flirts and behaves intimately with them."
• "Jane, for very good reason I want you to leave Whitehall with your father...I want to tell you, in this slippery world you represent to me all that is innocent. Everything that is good, unsullied, uncorrupted. It will not be for long. And after that, after that we can have our heart's desires."
• Anne: "I mean you suppose if anything were to happen to the king then you would think to have me." Norris: "Madam, if ever I had such a thought then I wish my head were cut off." Anne: "Oh, that can be arranged!"
• " Nan, get them to fetch Elizabeth to me tomorrow. I want to see my daughter. And Nan, if anything should happen to me, will you promise to care for her?"
• You were no virgin when you married me! You were not what you seemed. Your father and your brother arranged everything."
• "Whatever my sister has done is not with me or mine. I am innocent Mr. Cromwell. I swear to you; I swear on the blood of Christ."
• "My lords before you go I beg you, to beseech the King's grace to be good to me."
• "Sometimes Your Grace, in order to defeat evil you must learn to consort with the devil."
• "The Queen was tried yesterday at Westminster Hall. She pleaded not guilty to all the charges against her, but the evidence against her was so overwhelming, she was sentenced to death either by burning or decapitation according to the King's pleasure."
  

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