Six Wives

The Queens of Henry VIII

By: David Starkey

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Paperback | 4 March 2004 | Edition Number 1

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The pre-eminent study of the six wives of Henry VIII by a master historian.

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 dazzling 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.

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A tribute to Starkey's narrative drive, his puckish wit and sharp discrimination * Sunday Times *
Relentlessly scholarly...Starkey's is the best study of Henry's wives ever published... A masterly and persuasive narrative which never loses its grip over the story or the reader * Evening Standard *
High-powered history pithily expressed... This study of Henry VIII's women shows David Starkey at his best * Sunday Telegraph *
So gripping that one finishes it wishing it were even longer... The punchy style adopted by Starkey is perfectly suited to the story he has to tell * Mail on Sunday *
Starkey keeps the narrative alive with a combination of sound chronology, peppery opinion and startling detail... Six Wives provides an intriguing new perspective on this key period in English history * Daily Telegraph *

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List of Illustrations	p. ix
Family Trees	p. xii
Introduction	p. xv
Henry's Weddings	p. 1
Queen Catherine of Aragon
Parents: a power couple	p. 11
Education for power	p. 15
Power weddings	p. 18
England	p. 21
Negotiations	p. 24
Arthur	p. 26
Preparations	p. 28
Delays	p. 31
Dogma	p. 33
The journey	p. 38
Arrival	p. 40
Meeting	p. 44
Hubris	p. 48
London	p. 52
Wedding and bedding	p. 58
The morning after	p. 62
Nemesis	p. 73
A new marriage?	p. 79
Hard times	p. 87
Harder times	p. 93
Hope and despair	p. 99
Queen	p. 106
Honeymoon	p. 114
A son	p. 120
War	p. 123
Regent	p. 135
The breach with Spain	p. 149
The quest for an heir	p. 155
On the shelf	p. 160
Mary	p. 164
Marrying Mary	p. 179
Rival Queens
Divorcing Catherine
The preliminaries	p. 197
Trial in secret	p. 205
Between trials	p. 212
The legate	p. 221
The Brief	p. 225
Trial in open court	p. 232
The aftermath	p. 248
Anne Boleyn
Beginnings	p. 257
Debut	p. 264
Henry in love	p. 278
Sole mistress	p. 284
Henry and Anne: 'Our Matter'	p. 285
Mistress and Minister	p. 294
Anne's envoy	p. 304
Wolsey reascendant	p. 313
Co-operation?	p. 317
Wolsey's triumph	p. 325
The sweat	p. 330
Turning point	p. 335
Disillusionment	p. 339
Wolsey's fall	p. 355
Injurious remedies	p. 367
Cranmer	p. 384
The Royal Supremacy	p. 408
Wolsey's end	p. 421
Attacking Catherine	p. 433
Preliminaries to marriage	p. 445
Anne's marriage	p. 462
Archbishop	p. 467
Divorce Absolute	p. 477
Coronation	p. 489
Christening	p. 503
Resistance	p. 510
Hearts and minds	p. 524
The death of Catherine of Aragon	p. 541
Reaction	p. 549
Fall	p. 554
The Tower	p. 569
Jane Seymour
She stoops to conquer?	p. 584
The Later Queens
A Conversation	p. 611
Anne of Cleves
From Queen to sister	p. 617
Catherine Howard
'Virtuous and good behaviour'?	p. 644
Interlude	p. 685
Catherine Parr
A courtier's daughter	p. 690
Queen Catherine	p. 711
Queen Regent	p. 731
The test	p. 752
Notes	p. 766
Index	p. 819
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