Six Wives, Michael W. Simmons
Six Wives, Michael W. Simmons
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Six Wives
The Women Who Married, Lived, And Died For Henry VIII

Author: Michael W. Simmons

Narrator: Alan Munro

Unabridged: 4 hr 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/17/2017


Synopsis

Katherine of Aragon: abandoned woman. Anne Boleyn: ambitious upstart. Jane Seymour: virtuous mother. Anne of Cleves: Flanders Mare. Katherine Howard: adulterous whore. Katherine Parr: the one that got away.
These are our lingering historical afterimages of the six women who married Henry VIII over the course of his thirty-six-year reign. At the age of 18, Henry succeeded to the English throne and married the Spanish princess who had briefly been the wife of his brother Arthur. Katherine of Aragon was both a virgin and a widow when the prince died at the age of fifteen, enabling Henry to marry her himself. Their marriage lasted sixteen contented years, until suddenly, Henry fell in love with Anne Boleyn and sundered England from Rome in order to keep her.
But Henry VIII would not be satisfied even after he took Anne Boleyn for his wife. His vanity, his ego, and his desperate need for a male heir, led him to marry four more women during the last ten years of his life. In this book, you will read about the lives, loves, and secret passions of these women. Four of them died for Henry’s pleasure—but two escaped to tell their stories.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Paul on December 05, 2013

MARRY, KISS OR KILL : THE SIX WIVES OF HENRY VIII A play in several indecent acts ACT ONE Scene 1 The Year : 1500. Plymouth Docks Catherine of Aragon (aged 16) : So this is England... (She is violently ill). Scene 2 The Year : 1501. London Chuck Berry : It was a teenage wedding and the old folks wished the......more

Goodreads review by Paul on March 24, 2013

THE REASONABLY SENSIBLE REVIEW (Having had some crude knockabout fun with this book I thought that it deserved a reasonably straight review too. ) As Shakespeare didn’t say, some are born weird, some achieve weirdness, and some have weirdness thrust upon them. This is English history as Mexican soap o......more

Goodreads review by Michelle on October 27, 2015

I enjoyed reading this. I know a lot of people find Starkey off putting but I like to see a bit of personality in an information heavy read. The main complaint I've seen is that he blows his own trumpet a bit too much. Im not bothered by that. He's a well accepted authority on Tudor England and he's......more

Goodreads review by Krista Ashe on April 04, 2010

I am a Tudor History Buff aka nerd. If it's about Henry VIII, his wives, Elizabeth I, etc, I will read it. On my bookshelf, I have Alison Weir's Six Wives of Henry VIII. I had seen David Starkey's PBS documentary before, and I was interested in reading the book. So I checked it out of the library.........more

Goodreads review by Fraser on September 24, 2014

Reading other reviews on this book, I am struck how the reviewer focuses on the author rather than the work. I don't agree with the author policitically but found no evidence whatsoever in this work of any misogyny, as other reviewers have. At nearly a 1000 pages long, six wives:The queens of Henry......more