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Anne of Cleves (1515-1557)

He said she smelled. And he didn't like her boobs. Are we in a middle school lunchroom? No. We're in 16th century England at the court of Henry Tudor, AKA Henry VIII. Great Harry was talking about his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves, whom he married in 1540, after having gone through Katharine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn and Jane Seymour. I've always had a soft spot for Anne of Cleves, the second "divorced" in the old "Divorced, beheaded, died. Divorced,…