Henry VIII and his six wives

Author: Hardy Gould
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
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King Henry VIII of England is famous for many things, but he is also renowned worldwide for having six wives. He was not a good husband. People say that when he chose a new wife, fathers would carefully take their daughters far away from the royal palace. They did not want their daughters to be chosen by the king as the next queen, because several of his queens had short lives and were very. Why did King Henry divorce two of his wives and kill two others? What did his queens look like? Which of his wives was still alive after the king's death? Catherine Parr, his sixth wife, was still alive after the king's death. One day, she returned to the White Hall palace and found a box filled with old letters—all written to the king, one for each of his previous five wives. She sat down and read the letters to her young maid, Margaret. One letter came from Catherine of Aragon, the daughter of the King of Spain, and she had been married to Henry for 24 years. She died alone and lonely, with no friends.