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  Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII (Paperback) By (author) David Starkey

  

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  Short Description for Six WivesGives a textured picture of daily life at the Tudor Court from the woman's point of view. This book establishes the interaction of the private and public, and demonstrates how the Queens of Henry VIII were central in determining political policy.
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  • Publisher: VINTAGE
  • Published: 04 March 2004
  • Format: Paperback 384 pages
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  • Categories: Biography: General | Biography: Historical, Political & Military | British & Irish History | Early Modern History: C 1450/1500 To C 1700 | Genealogy, Heraldry, Names & Honours
  • ISBN 13: 9780099437246 ISBN 10: 0099437244
  • Sales rank: 58,963

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• Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived.' 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 Boleyn's radical and vampish style...ANNE OF CLEVES: 'the mare of Flanders' whose short marriage to the overweight Henry followed a farcical 'beauty contest'...CATHERINE HOWARD: the flirtatious teenager whose adulteries made a fool of the ageing king...CATHERINE PARR: the shrewd, religiously radical bluestocking who outlived him...In this study, David Starkey gives us a richly textured picture of daily life at the Tudor Court from the woman's point of view. Above all, he establishes the interaction of the private and the public, and demonstrates how the Queens of Henry VIII were central in determining political policy.