ANNE OF CLEVES THE ‘PRAGMATIC’ ONE
ANNE’S LIFE
orn in Düsseldorf, Anne of Cleves was the original mail-order bride, and was being suggested as a potential fourth bride for Henry within weeks of Jane Seymour’s death. Then aged 22, Anne was used to being used as a pawn for dynastic alliances: she had been betrothed to the future Duke of Lorraine,