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Six Queens

The Wives of Henry VIII

Suzannah Lipscomb author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Publishing:10th Jun '27

£25.00

This title is due to be published on 10th June, and will be despatched as soon as possible.

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The stories of the lives and fates of the six wives of King Henry VIII, crisply told and beautifully illustrated.

The stories of the lives and fates of the six wives of King Henry VIII.

'Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived': so goes the famous mnemonic by which we recall the varied destinies of Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anne of Cleves, Catherine Howard and Catherine Parr. The stories of these six consorts of the second Tudor king – their fates the brutal corollary of the stark dynastic imperatives of the royal succession – have assumed mythic status in the annals of English history. Only three of these women would give Henry a child that survived infancy: two girls (Mary and Elizabeth) and one boy (Edward). All three would inherit the crown worn by their mighty father, but the Tudor dynasty would not outlive their deaths. Suzannah Lipscomb's crisply authoritative and insightful accounts of the lives of these six queens are embellished by beautiful images of the principal players in this most compelling of royal dra

PRAISE FOR SUZANNAH LIPSCOMB: 'A genuinely useful [...] guide for all Tudor fans' Hilary Mantel, on A Visitor's Companion to Tudor England. 'Fresh and lively, historically accurate and also entertaining' TLS, on 1536: The Year that Changed Henry VIII. 'A bold and original attempt to unravel one of the great mysteries of English history' -- David Starkey, on 1536: The Year that Changed Henry VIII

ISBN: 9781784974350

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: unknown

400 pages