The Six Wives of Henry VIII (Paperback)

"Fraser blends sex, emotion, and court intrigue. In just the right amount. He manages to create a history book with intelligible and irresistible text." Sunday Times “ "Divorced, beheaded, dead, divorced, beheaded, survived." This is how Henry VIII's six wives—Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anne of Cleves, Catherine Howard, and Catherine Parr—became popularly known. Not so much for the lives they led, but for the way those lives ended. Likewise, they became stereotyped as the Betrayed Wife, the Temptress, the Good Woman, the Ugly Sister, the Wicked Girl, and the Mother Figure. The historian and author of the book brilliantly and conclusively proves that Henry VIII's women had strong and sensitive personalities. Victims of the king's obsession with a male heir, but not passive victims, they demonstrated strength and intelligence. The author opens new perspectives for understanding the social life of an interesting period in British history, from 1509 to 1547.