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Six Wives : The Queens of Henry VIII

Six Wives : The Queens of Henry VIII

David Starkey

Take a look at the wives of Henry VIII: Catherine of Aragon, mother of Mary Tudor; Anne Boleyn, with whom Henry was madly in love; Jane Seymour, who gave Henry his longed-for son; Anne of Cleves, who was so plain; Catherine Howard, the "flirty child"; and Catherine Parr, a Protestant bluestocking.
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THE QUEENS OF HENRY V111: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 I; 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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Title - Six Wives : The Queens of Henry VIII

Edition -

Author - David Starkey

ISBN 13 - 9780701172985

Imprint - Chatto & Windus

Publisher - Vintage Publishing

Date Published - 27/03/2003

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No. of pages - 880

Binding Type - Hardback

Dimensions - 157 x 239 x 52mm

Weight - 1330 g

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