The women who married Henry VIII have become defined
not by the way they lived but by the way their lives ended.
(🌊)They are seen as victims of a bloated tyrant, deserving pity, but not
respect. However, have we under-estimated them and are historians right to
have merely portrayed them as bit-part players in Henry's story?
(♟)Using dramatic reconstruction and passionate narration,
eminent historian and presenter Dr David Starkey focuses
(📧)on the stories of the women themselves, revealing in
intimate detail their experiences of sex, childbirth and the glamorous,
(🔅) dangerous life at court, including the deadly intrigues that dethroned
them.
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