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

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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.

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

a high school essay for those without any knowledge of the tudors, it should promoted as a beginners guideI am an expert on Tudor history, and several of the wives. and found this book a waste of money I

Product details File Size 2544 KB Print Length 176 pages Page Numbers Source ISBN 1544881010 Simultaneous Device Usage Unlimited Publisher Make Profits Easy LLC (March 20, 2017) Publication Date March 20, 2017 Sold by  Digital Services LLC Language English ASIN B06XS5F36V

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Six Wives The Women Who Married Lived And Died For Henry VIII eBook Michael W Simmons Reviews

Each of Henry VIII's wives has merited several lengthy biographies, so a short book that covers all six is bound to skim over quite a bit. That said, Simmons' book does a good job of portraying each woman, along with some context of the court and political issues. The overall tone is sympathetic towards each of his wives and even towards Henry himself, though it also acknowledges his capacity for cruelty, vindictiveness, and hypocrisy.

If you're looking for a brief overview, researched but not scholarly, this book will be a good, readable choice.
Nearly everything is just a basic overview, with the exception of Henry's attempted divorce from Catherine of Aragon, which takes up literally 70% of the book. It needs some factual editing, but is good about not repeating myths, such as Henry calling Anne of Cleves a Flanders mare. It does do a fairly decent job of not taking sides, painting Henry as the villain rather than one of the wives, as many books are wont to do, though this is somewhat cancelled by the author's need to praise Elizabeth I at every chance.
just ok
I am not a historian but recently became interested in the monarchs of this time period. This book was a great catchup to all I hadn't remembered in history class.
Although the book was well expressed and there was even some new material that I have never seen before, the fact that the author quotes absolutely NO sourses or notes is rather telling. For this reason it got only 2* - One ALWAYS quotes one's sourses.
This is a good book to read if you know almost nothing about Henry VIII and want to learn the basics. Otherwise, skip this and read The Six Wives of Henry VIII by Alison Weir.
That Henry VIII could dispose of so many women so callously, or even just off-handedly, and use his ultimate power to get away with this is horrific when you think about it. And that he could so heartlessly create false rumours around some of the wives he tired of, to their ultimate doom, is beyond belief in our modern world (or is it?). But he did, and this insight into his actions, the mistakes of some these women who were enticed by his position, and the ambitions of families entering into such a dangerous liaison for their daughters, is what makes this particular time in English history totally mad, bad and interesting. For history, this is probably a light read, but sometimes history should be made light enough to entertain as well as inform.
a high school essay for those without any knowledge of the tudors, it should promoted as a beginners guideI am an expert on Tudor history, and several of the wives. and found this book a waste of money I