Episode 2.10 |

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• Endings and beginnings. As Anne Boleyn awaits her death, painfully delayed by the executioner's late arrival, Henry visits Jane Seymour and asks for her hand in marriage. Declaring his marriage to Anne null and void means that their daughter Elizabeth becomes illegitimate and is no longer in line to the throne - clearing the way for a legitimate heir to come from his marriage with Jane. Henry begins this momentous event with a magnificent breakfast at which is served a dish reserved for the English King alone: an exquisite roasted swan.
  

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• " My Lady, I can now tell you that the King has decreed that you will not be burned but suffer a quicker death by decapitation. In his mercy, the King has also acceeded to your plea to use the services of the executioner of Calais who is even on his way here from Dover."
• "My Lady, I am obliged to tell you that your marriage to the King has been declared null and void."
• " Elizabeth is to be declared a bastard."
• " I confess my innocence before God. I solemly swear, on the damnation of my soul, that I have never been unfaithful to my Lord and Husband nor ever offended with my body against him. I do not say that I have always bourne towards him humility which I owed him, considering his kindness and the great honor he showed me and the great respect he always paid me. I admit too that I have often taken into my head to be jealous of him. But God knows and is my witness, I have not sinned against him in any other way. Think not I say this in the hope to prolong my life. God has taught me how to die and he will strengthen my faith. As for my brother and those others who were unjustly condemed, I would willingly have suffered many deaths to deliver them. But since it pleases the King, I will willingly accompany them in death with the assurance that I will lead an endless life with them in peace.
  

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