Bookworm_ Henry VIII and His Six Wives

Author: (English) Hardy-Gould (Hardy-Gould, J.) wrote, translated by Shang Haiyan
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Publishing Date: 2003-10-01
Features: King Henry VIII of England is famous for many things, but he is also renowned 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 were all unwilling to let the king choose their daughters to be the next queen, because his several queens were all short-lived and very unhappy. Why did King Henry divorce two of his wives and kill two others? What did his queens really look like? Queen 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—each letter from one of his five former wives. She sat down and read the letters to her young maid Margaret. The letter came from the daughter of the Spanish king, Catherine of Aragon, who had been married to Henry for 24 years. She died of loneliness, with no friends.