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The Other Boleyn Girl is the 2008 film adaptation of the novel of the same title by British author Philippa Gregory. If you loved the movie, you will love these wallpapers!

It is a romanticised account of the life of the 16th-century aristocrat, Mary Boleyn, who was the sister of Queen Anne Boleyn and one-time mistress of King Henry VIII of England. The film was directed by Justin Chadwick from a script by Peter Morgan (who also wrote a two-part television drama on Henry VIII in 2003).

The movie is about the sisters, Anne Boleyn (Natalie Portman) and Mary Boleyn (Scarlett Johansson), who are both fighting for the attention of King Henry VIII (Eric Bana) love. Although initially reluctant to become Henry’s mistress, Mary falls genuinely in love with the King, while Anne is only interested in securing her own status. Their father, Sir Thomas Boleyn, and uncle, the Duke of Norfolk, engineer the sisters’ coming to Henry’s attention in the first place, capitalizing on his dissatisfaction with his wife, Katherine of Aragon, who has failed to bear him a living son. The ambitious men seek their own gain in having a female relative as the King’s mistress. First they select Anne, who is older, more ambitious and unmarried, and arrange for her to catch Henry’s eye, but when Henry is injured in a hunting accident, indirectly caused by Anne, they have Mary nurse him.

While Anne is sent to France in disgrace, Mary becomes the King’s lover; the Boleyns’ fortunes seem secure when she becomes pregnant. When Mary is confined to bed rest to protect the baby, however, Norfolk recalls Anne from France to keep the King’s attention from wandering to another rival (such as Jane Seymour). Anne embarks on a successful campaign to attract Henry, showing herself to be more sophisticated and accomplished than she had seemed before. By refusing her sexual favors, she ensures Henry’s continued interest, finally making him promise never to bed his wife or speak to her sister in exchange for her giving him hope. She exacts this promise just after Mary gives birth to the much-anticipated son, making her sister’s triumph hollow.

* Natalie Portman as Queen Anne Boleyn * Scarlett Johansson as Mary Boleyn * Eric Bana as Henry VIII * Jim Sturgess as George Boleyn * Mark Rylance as Thomas Boleyn * Kristin Scott Thomas as Elizabeth Boleyn * Juno Temple as Jane Parker * Eddie Redmayne as William Stafford * Benedict Cumberbatch as William Carey * Ana Torrent as Catherine of Aragon * Bill Wallis as Archbishop Cranmer

The ambitious Anne continues to refuse Henry’s advances, until at last he obtains an unpopular divorce from Katherine and marries her instead. A scandal from her brief, secret marriage to a young nobleman (Henry Percy) threatens the alliance, but Mary, out of loyalty to her family, returns to court and vouches for Anne’s honesty. A pregnant Anne becomes Queen of England, and Mary stays by her side. Despite the birth of a daughter, Elizabeth, the royal marriage is unhappy. After Anne miscarries her second child, she becomes desperate and asks her brother, George Boleyn, to try to impregnate her. Mary again leaves behind the intrigues of court, but Anne and George are unable to go through with their incest. Nonetheless, George’s neglected wife, Jane, sees enough of their encounter to make her suspicious. Her testimony sets off the arrest, trial and, eventually, the execution of both Boleyns. Mary returns to court to plead for her sister’s life, and although Henry seems to soften, he permits Anne’s beheading to go on. He even warns Mary never to come to court again, because her family’s disgrace could result in danger to her, as well. Mary fulfills her last promise to Anne and takes care of her infant daughter, who will grow up, the film’s epilogue notes, to be the strong and successful heir that Henry always wanted: Elizabeth I.

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