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In common parlance, the wives of Henry VIII were the six Queens consort of King Henry VIII of England between 1509 and his death in 1547. In legal terms ( de jure ), Henry had only three wives, because three of his marriages were annulled by the Church of England .
Catherine Parr (she signed her letters as Kateryn; c. July/August 1512 [2] – 5 September 1548) was Queen of England and Ireland as the last of the six wives of King Henry VIII from their marriage on 12 July 1543 until Henry's death on 28 January 1547.
Seymour was played by Charlotte Roach in David Starkey's documentary series The Six Wives of Henry VIII in 2001. [46] Seymour is a supporting character in the 2003 BBC television drama The Other Boleyn Girl, played by Naomi Benson opposite Jared Harris as Henry VIII and Jodhi May as Anne Boleyn. [47]
King Henry was infamous for having six wives, two of whom were beheaded, and a third who died after childbirth. Only Parr survived the marriage to the monarch, relatively unscathed. “History ...
Henry VIII (28 June 1491 – 28 January 1547) was King of England from 22 April 1509 until his death. Henry is known for his six marriages and his efforts to have his first marriage (to Catherine of Aragon ) annulled .
Catherine Howard [b] (c. 1523 – 13 February 1542) was Queen of England from July 1540 until November 1541 as the fifth wife of King Henry VIII.She was the daughter of Lord Edmund Howard and Joyce Culpeper, a cousin to Anne Boleyn (the second wife of Henry VIII), and the niece of Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk.
In the movie Firebrand, Jude Law portrays King Henry VIII as he nears death and reaches an apex of paranoia at the end of a megalomaniacal life. The last of his six wives, Katherine Parr (Alicia ...
Anne Boleyn (/ ˈ b ʊ l ɪ n, b ʊ ˈ l ɪ n /; [7] [8] [9] c. 1501 or 1507 – 19 May 1536) was Queen of England from 1533 to 1536, as the second wife of King Henry VIII.The circumstances of her marriage and execution, by beheading for treason, made her a key figure in the political and religious upheaval that marked the start of the English Reformation.