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"I acknowledge myself hereby to accept and approve . . . that your highness will take me for your sister."
"I like her not! I like her not!"
-After first meeting Anne of Cleves in 1540
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| Above: Catherine Siggins as Anne of Cleves |
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Homespun and plain, Anne of Cleves was. And unable to arouse the king's desire. But when Henry's rejection came, this German noblewoman - for all her "evil smells" -- had the sense to survive.
Anne of Cleves' background 
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| Lower right: Anne of Cleves by Hans Holbein |
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