📗 Libro en inglés SIX LIVES: THE STORIES OF HENRY VIIIS QUEENS

What were the real life stories and legacies of the six women who married Henry VIII Discover these extraordinary queens through the court culture that recorded and shaped their often tempestuous lives their letters heraldic devices books love tokens and of course their portraits The women who married Henry VIII have come to be encapsulated in a six word rhyme Divorced Beheaded Died Divorced Beheaded Survived But what were their real stories and legacies Six Lives The Stories of Henry VIII s Queens reveals the extraordinary lives and afterlives of Katherine of Aragon Anne Boleyn Jane Seymour Anne of Cleves Katherine Howard and Katherine Parr A source of fascination to historians and writers down the centuries each of the queens and their relationship with the king has been the subject extensive research and a source of creative inspiration This publication focuses on the material traces of the queens and the court culture that shaped their lives extensively illustrated with their letters heraldic devices books love tokens and of course their portraits The book begins with an examination of the women as cultural phenomena looking at the ways in which their lives have inspired storytellers from Shakespeare s Henry VIII to the m