Word: boleyn
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Elizabeth was born unpropitiously into a man's world and a man's role. Desiring a son, Elizabeth's father Henry VIII divorced his first wife and broke with the Roman Catholic Church to marry Anne Boleyn. When Anne bore him a girl, he ordered his wife beheaded and the child princess declared a bastard. Elizabeth grew up in loneliness and danger, learning the urgency of keeping her balance on England's quivering political tightrope. She was lucky to receive a boy's rigorous education, tutored by distinguished scholars in the classics, history, philosophy, languages and theology. She was serious...
...Premise: A historical drama on Sir Thomas More, the unwilling martyr who was prepared to do everything to save his life except betray his God. Set in the times of King Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, this is a play on the deep and stirring Shakespearean themes of valor and honor...
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...that English history would have been rewritten had Catherine of Aragon's infant son lived to maturity. There would have been no divorce; Henry would have remained Catholic and the course of the English Reformation would have been profoundly altered. And there would have been no Elizabeth I, Anne Boleyn's daughter, depriving England of a monarch who far outshone her son-obsessed father...