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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 .
The Six Wives of Henry VIII is a 1991 history book, an account of Henry VIII's marriages by British historian Alison Weir. The book was Weir's first historical work since her first book, Britain's Royal Families. It is divided into three sections - "Catherine of Aragon," "The Great Matter" and "How many wives will he have?"
The early months of their marriage are happy, but Henry becomes upset when, after six months, she is still not pregnant. Catherine becomes involved with a handsome, young man named Thomas Culpeper . Rumors of her affair are brought to the king, who does not want to believe them but, after being given proof, has no choice.
In Britain, schoolchildren learning about Tudor history are taught a handy rhyme to remember the order of King Henry VIII’s six wives: “Divorced, beheaded, died. Divorced, beheaded, survived.”
The six women were (in order) Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anne of Cleves, Catherine Howard, and Catherine Parr. Subcategories This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
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 ...
WHAT: From Tudor Queens to Pop Icons, the "SIX" wives of Henry VIII take the microphone to remix five hundred years of historical heartbreak into a euphoric celebration of 21st-century girl power ...
The Six Wives of Henry VIII Elizabeth R is a BBC television drama serial of six 90-minute plays starring Glenda Jackson as Queen Elizabeth I of England. It was first broadcast on BBC2 from February to March 1971, through the ABC in Australia and broadcast in the United States on PBS 's Masterpiece Theatre .