Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII
Author: David Starkey
CATHERINE OF ARAGON, the pious Spanish Catholic who suffered years of miscarriages and failed to produce a male heir; ANNE BOLEYN, the pretty, clever, French-educated ‘Protestant’ whose marriage to Henry changed England forever; JANE SEYMOUR, the demure and submissive contrast to Anne’s radical and vampish style; ANNE OF CLEVES, ‘the mare of Flanders’ whose short marriage….Read More
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