The Six Wives of Henry VIII

Name: The Six Wives of Henry VIII
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by Antonia Fraser Book 4 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.

Historical Periods

Field of the Cloth of Gold1520 CE Henrician Reformation1530–1547 CE

Historical people

Henry VIII1491–1547 Catherine of Aragon1485–1536 Anne Boleyn1501–1536 Jane Seymour1508–1537 Anne of Cleves1515–1557 Catherine Howard1523–1542 Catherine Parr1512–1548