The Duke of Cleves ran a tight ship. His daughter Anne had been brought up in a setting ... The king was unimpressed by their wedding night: "Now I like her much worse," he said.

An execution and a wedding happened on the same day in real history. However, before Thomas Cromwell was arrested, Henry VIII had married Anne of Cleves. He didn’t want to, but he had to for the ...

In the end his chief advisor was unable to achieve this, and Henry VIII went through with the wedding but their marriage was annulled after six months and it was declared unconsummated. What happened ...

after his first meeting with her, the English king only went through with the wedding to maintain diplomatic ties with Anne’s home, the German Duchy of Cleves, and other Protestant allies across ...

While she was able to keep her dresses and jewels, Anne returned her wedding ring and asked for ... who was closely connected to her family in Cleves. Instead, Mary married Philip of Spain ...

The resulting likeness—featuring Anne of Cleves smiling demurely while clad ... Around six months after the couple’s January 1540 wedding, the king had the union annulled and Cromwell sent ...

A home that once belonged to Anne of Cleves, the fourth of King Henry VIII's six wives, is now listed on the market by the real estate group Jackson-Stops Mid Sussex with an asking price of about ...