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Book Synopsis The Six Wives of Henry VIII by : Alison Weir
Download or read book The Six Wives of Henry VIII written by Alison Weir and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-05-31 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most powerful monarchs in British history, Henry VIII ruled England in unprecedented splendour. In this remarkable composite biography, Alison Weir brings Henry's six wives vividly to life, revealing each as a distinct and compelling personality in her own right. Drawing upon the rich fund of documentary material from the Tudor period, The Six Wives of Henry VIII shows us a court where personal needs frequently influenced public events and where a life of gorgeously ritualised pleasure was shot through with ambition, treason and violence. 'At last we have the truth about Henry VIII's wives. This book is as reliable and scholarly as it is readable' Evening Standard
Book Synopsis The Six Wives Of Henry VIII by : Antonia Fraser
Download or read book The Six Wives Of Henry VIII written by Antonia Fraser and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2011-06-16 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Antonia Fraser's bestselling biography of Henry VIII's six wives; a subject of enduring fascination. The six wives of Henry VIII - Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anna of Cleves, Katherine Howard and Catherine Parr - have become defined in a popular sense not so much by their lives as by the way these lives ended. But, as Antonia Fraser conclusively proves, they were rich and feisty characters. They may have been victims of Henry's obsession with a male heir, but they were not willing victims. On the contrary, they displayed considerable strength and intelligence at a time when their sex supposedly possessed little of either.
Book Synopsis Adventures in Time: The Six Wives of Henry VIII by : Dominic Sandbrook
Download or read book Adventures in Time: The Six Wives of Henry VIII written by Dominic Sandbrook and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2021-07-01 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take a journey to a vanished world with the ADVENTURES IN TIME series - stories so exciting you won't believe they're all true 'Winter has come; and in a far distant land, a warrior queen is expecting a child...' Step through these pages into the Tudor world: a dangerous place, where one miss-step could cost your life. Through the eyes of Henry VIII's six very different queens, from a brave Spanish princess to a wise English widow, historian Dominic Sandbrook takes us on a thrilling journey through the twists and turns of a dramatic age. For no one is safe from the wheel of fortune: it can take you from a golden throne to the Tower of London... The Adventures in Time series brings the past alive for twenty-first century children. These stories are every bit as exciting as those of Harry Potter or Matilda Wormwood. The only difference is they actually happened...
Book Synopsis The Six Wives of Henry VIII by : Gladys Malvern
Download or read book The Six Wives of Henry VIII written by Gladys Malvern and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2016-01-12 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gladys Malvern uses her celebrated talent for prose to share the stories of Henry VIII’s wives with immense personality and captivating drama. Henry VIII was married to six women during his reign as the King of England. Gladys Malvern characterizes them as The Saint (Catherine of Aragon); The Egotist (Anne Boleyn); The Diplomat (Jane Seymour); The Housewife (Anne of Cleves); The Coquette (Catherine Howard); and The Mother (Catherine Parr). Malvern masterfully tells each of their personal histories and how they intertwined through rivalry, vying for power, political maneuvering, and the hardships of losing favor with the man that seceded the Church of England from Rome for a divorce.
Download or read book Six Wives written by David Starkey and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 884 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Extraordinary. . . . It is a tribute to Starkey’s narrative drive, his puckish wit, and sharp discrimination that it doesn’t seem a page too long. . . . With each queen, Starkey offers a vivid character study but also has fresh discoveries that subtly alter the picture he started out with.” — Sunday Times (London) The dramatic, legendary story of Henry VIII, his six wives, and the England they ruled—told by one of the world’s preeminent historians of the Tudor era. Perhaps no one in history had a more eventful career in matrimony than Henry VIII. His marriages were tumultuous and complicated, and made instant legends of six very different women. Henry took his first bride, Catherine of Aragon, when he was 17. Their 24-year marriage was a relatively stable prelude to what followed. Anne Boleyn, a pretty, French-educated Protestant who was the mother of Elizabeth I, was eventually beheaded. Jane Seymour served as a demure contrast to the vampish Boleyn, and gave birth to Henry’s longed-for son (Edward VI). After a brief marriage to the plain Anne of Cleves, Henry married a flirtatious teenager, Catherine Howard, who would be the second of his brides to lose her head along with the king’s favor. Finally, there was Catherine Parr, a shrewd Protestant bluestocking. In this brilliant new work, one of the world’s most respected historians weaves startling new facts and fresh interpretations into a spellbinding account of the emotional drama and political intrigue that attended Henry’s six marriages. With a keen eye for both the personal and the global stage, David Starkey masterfully recaptures the Tudor era—and the wives of Henry VIII—as only he can.
Book Synopsis The Six Wives of Henry VIII by : David Loades
Download or read book The Six Wives of Henry VIII written by David Loades and published by Amberley Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The marital ups and downs of England's most infamous king. The story of Henry VIII and his six wives has passed from history into legend - taught in the cradle as a cautionary tale and remembered in adulthood as an object lesson in the dangers of marrying into royalty. The true story behind the legend, however, remains obscure to most people, whose knowledge of the affair begins and ends with the aide memoire 'Divorced, executed, died, divorce, executed, survived'. David Loades masterly book recounts the whole sorry tale in detail from Henry's first marriage, to his brother's widow, to more or less contented old age in the care of the motherly Catherine Parr.
Book Synopsis Henry VIII and his Six Wives Level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library by : Janet Hardy-Gould
Download or read book Henry VIII and his Six Wives Level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library written by Janet Hardy-Gould and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-02-10 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Written for Learners of English by Janet Hardy-Gould. There were six of them – three Katherines, two Annes, and a Jane. One of them was the King’s wife for twenty-four years, another for only a year and a half. One died, two were divorced, and two were beheaded. It was a dangerous, uncertain life. After the King’s death in 1547, his sixth wife finds a box of old letters – one from each of the first five wives. They are sad, angry, frightened letters. They tell the story of what it was like to be the wife of Henry VIII of England.
Book Synopsis Memoirs of Henry the Eighth of England by : Henry William Herbert
Download or read book Memoirs of Henry the Eighth of England written by Henry William Herbert and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Six Wives of King Henry VIII by : Paul Rival
Download or read book The Six Wives of King Henry VIII written by Paul Rival and published by Heinemann Educational Books. This book was released on 1971 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Wives of Henry VIII by : Antonia Fraser
Download or read book The Wives of Henry VIII written by Antonia Fraser and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2014-04-30 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times bestselling history of the legendary six wives of Henry VIII--from the acclaimed author of Marie Antoinette. Under Antonia Fraser's intent scrutiny, Catherine of Aragon emerges as a scholar-queen who steadfastly refused to grant a divorce to her royal husband; Anne Boleyn is absolved of everything but a sharp tongue and an inability to produce a male heir; and Catherine Parr is revealed as a religious reformer with the good sense to tack with the treacherous winds of the Tudor court. And we gain fresh understanding of Jane Seymour's circumspect wisdom, the touching dignity of Anna of Cleves, and the youthful naivete that led to Katherine Howard's fatal indiscretions. The Wives of Henry VIII interweaves passion and power, personality and politics, into a superb work of history.
Book Synopsis Don't Lose Your Head by : Harriet Marsden
Download or read book Don't Lose Your Head written by Harriet Marsden and published by Ulysses Press. This book was released on 2021-02-16 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Survive alongside Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, and the rest of King Henry VIII’s ill-fated wives with this witty book of essential life advice, history, and trivia—the perfect handbook for fans of the hit musical Six. Get the inside scoop from some of the toughest women in English history, as ex-wives, mothers, and daughters of King Henry VIII dish out all their survival secrets in this humorous guide to life. With a bit of sarcasm and friendly charm, each of these legendary ladies explains how their 16th-century hard-earned lessons (from living with unstable men to stifling Tudor traditions) apply to 21st-century dating, marriage, and feminism. Written from the perspectives of each of the different women around Henry VIII, you’ll get the facts from the Queen Mother and the less-remembered but no less important Anne of Cleves, Katherine Howard, and more. With must-know historical trivia alongside wise life advice, Don’t Lose Your Head is the perfect survival guide for fans obsessed with Broadway’s latest historical pop musical Six, as well as anyone fascinated by British royalty and culture.
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Book Synopsis The Six Wives of Henry VIII by : Maurice Cowan
Download or read book The Six Wives of Henry VIII written by Maurice Cowan and published by Leslie Frewin Publishers Limited. This book was released on 1968 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The episodes are intended to portray the courtly and private lives of Henry and his wives, and are designed to present the pageantry, intrique, and humor of the period.
Book Synopsis The Six Wives of Henry VIII by : John Courtenay Trewin
Download or read book The Six Wives of Henry VIII written by John Courtenay Trewin and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Six Wives of Henry VIII by : Catherine Allison
Download or read book The Six Wives of Henry VIII written by Catherine Allison and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Henry VIII and His Six Wives by : John Guy
Download or read book Henry VIII and His Six Wives written by John Guy and published by TickTock Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Royalty.
Book Synopsis The Six Marriages of Henry VIII by : Jules D'Argis
Download or read book The Six Marriages of Henry VIII written by Jules D'Argis and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-28 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book for advanced Tudor fans. If you know nothing about the Tudors, this is not the book for you.Originally published in 1878, The Six Marriages of Henry VIII is like the farsical love child of The Spanish Chronicle and Agnes Strickland, uniting Agnes' pretense at biography with the Spanish Chronicle's tendency to "bring some scenes to life." Oh, and it's all told in the snark of Charles de Marillac, the French ambassador to Henry's court during some key years. Jules D'Argis repeats a lot of the over-the-top, no-this-never-happened stories - and invents new ones, many of which are based on the cultural practices he was familiar with and therefore tell us a lot about his own era. In a scene right out of a Bronte novel, D'Argis trots out a fortune teller to warn Anne Boleyn of the dangers that await her; elsewhere he speaks of the court going to Brighton to enjoy the seashore. Unfortunately, D'Argis also shows us what an antisemitic place France was at the time, in a gratuitous scene showing a jeweler who must remake for Jane Seymour a diamond and ruby necklace once destined for her predecessor. I eliminated the slurs but left the scene in, knowing that he had already proved his poor judgment by that point (he thought Anne had in fact slept with Norris, for goodness' sake!). In all, it's a wild read. Tudorholics will love to see how England's historic rival told the stories of the Tudors, especially closer to the actual events.
