Six Wives - Queens of Henry VIII

Author(s): David Starkey

History

The Queens of Henry VIII: Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived:
CATHERINE OF ARAGON the Catholic Spanish Princess, who suffered years of miscarriages and still births and yet failed to produce a son... She was the mother of Mary Tudor;
ANNE BOLEYN, the pretty, clever, French-educated Protestant with whom Henry Vlll was madly in love - for a brief period. She was the mother of Elizabeth 1;
JANE SEYMOUR the demure and submissive contrast to Anne Boleyn's vampish style. She died soon after giving birth to the longed-for son (Edward VI);
ANNE OF CLEVES, 'the Flanders mare': He was horrified because she was so plain and she was appalled because he was so fat... ;
CATHERINE HOWARD, the flirtatious teenager whose adulteries made a fool of the ageing king;
CATHERINE PARR, the shrewd Protestant bluestocking who outlived him.


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General Fields

  • : 9780099437246
  • : Penguin Random House
  • : Penguin Books Ltd
  • : 0.714
  • : January 2004
  • : 20.00 cmmm X 12.90 cmmm X 5.60 cmmm
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : David Starkey
  • : Paperback
  • : en
  • : 942.0520922
  • : 852