Unit 3 - Step 3 - An English King

Question 1

Henry VIII est né à Greenwich près de Londres en 1491.

Answer 1

Henry VIII was born in Greenwich near London in 1431.

Question 2

Il est devenu roi d’Angleterre en 1509.

Answer 2

He became king of England in 1509.

Question 3

Sa première femme était Catherine d’Aragon.

Answer 3

His first wife was Catherine of Aragon.

Question 4

Ils eurent une fille, Marie, mais ils n’ont pas eu de garçon.

Answer 4

They had a daughter, Mary, but they didn’t have a male child.

Question 5

Après vingt ans de mariage, Henry a demandé le divorce.

Answer 5

After twenty years of marriage, Henry asked for a divorce.

Question 6

Puis il est tombé amoureux d’ Anne Boleyn, qui avait vingt ans.

Answer 6

Then he fell in love with Anne Boleyn, who was twenty years old.

Question 7

Il l’a épousée en 1533. Ils ont eu une fille, Elizabeth, mais aucun garçon.

Answer 7

He married her in 1533. They had one daughter, Elizabeth, but no male child.

Question 8

Henry était déçu et il en a eu assez d’Anne Boleyn.

Answer 8

Henry was disappointed and he got tired of Anne Boleyn.

Question 9

Elle a été décapité avec une épée à la Tour de Londres.

Answer 9

She was beheaded with a sword at the Tower of London.

Question 10

Onze jours après l’exécution d’Anne Boleyn, il épousa Jane Seymour.

Answer 10

Eleven days after Anne Boleyn’s execution he married Jane Seymour.

Question 11

Ils eurent un fils, Edward, en 1537. Mais Jane est morte quand elle eu le bébé.

Answer 11

They had a son, Edward, in 1537. But Jane died when she had the baby.

Question 12

En 1540, il épousa Anne de Clèves, une princesse allemande.

Answer 12

In 1540 he married Anne of Cleves, a German princess.

Question 13

Mais il ne l’aimait pas et après six mois de mariage, il a obtenu un divorce.

Answer 13

But he didn’t like her and after six months of marriage he got a divorce.

Question 14

Dans la même année, à l’âge de quarante-neuf ans, il épousa la jeune Catherine Howard.

Answer 14

**In the same year, at the age of forty-nine, he married the young Catherine Howard. **

Question 15

Elle n’avait que dix-huit ans.

Answer 15

She was only eighteen.

Question 16

Elle a eu de nombreux amants, et elle et ses amants ont été décapités avec une hache en 1542.

Answer 16

She had many lovers, and she and her lovers were beheaded with an axe in 1542.

Question 17

A la fin de sa vie Henry est devenu très triste, déprimé et extrêmement gros.

Answer 17

At the end of his life Henry became very sad, depressed and enormously fat.

Question 18

Sa dernière femme, Catherine Parr, est devenu une compagne et une infirmière pour le roi malade, qui mourut à Londres en 1547

Answer 18

His last wife, Catherine Parr, became a companion and nurse for the sick king who died in London in 1547.

Question 19

Elle est morte un an plus tard.

Answer 19

She died one year later.

Question 20

Le roi suivant fût le fils d’Henry, Edward, mais il est mort quand il avait quinze ans.

Answer 20

The next king was Henry’s son, Edward, but he died when he was fifteen.

Question 21

Alors Mary, la première fille d’Henry, est devenue la reine.

Answer 21

Then Mary, Henry’s first daughter, became queen.

Question 22

Elle n’a eu aucun enfant.

Answer 22

She didn’t have any children.

Question 23

Quand elle est morte, sa demi-soeur Elizabeth accéda au trône.

Answer 23

When she died, her half-sister Elizabeth came to the throne.

Question 24

Elizabeth a régné pendant quarante-cinq ans et … elle ne s’est jamais marié !

Answer 24

Elizabeth reigned for forty-five years and… she never married !