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Oct 2024
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Final Days of Anne Boleyn

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Today we’re exploring the grim and heroic final days of the Anne Boleyn, the thousand day queen.


We are joined by the one-and-only Dr Tracy Borman who bestselling book on this topic is Anne Boleyn & Elizabeth I: The Mother and Daughter Who Changed History.


Edited by Tomos Delargy. Produced by Freddy Chick. Senior Producer is Charlotte Long.


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