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The Six Wives of Henry VIII
In the Women in History series.
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This group biography studies Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anne of Cleves, Catherine Howard and Catherine Parr as individuals as well as wives of Henry VIII. Fraser places each marriage within Tudor dynastic politics, religious change, court faction and the king’s need for a secure succession. The book traces how queenship, fertility, diplomacy and personal vulnerability shaped the lives of six women whose reputations have often been reduced to the order in which Henry married and discarded them.
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