The six wives of Henry VIII Catherine of Aragon Anne Boleyn Jane SeymourAnna of Cleves Katherine Howard and Catherine Parr have become defined in apopular sen... » 

The six wives of Henry VIII Catherine of Aragon Anne Boleyn Jane SeymourAnna of Cleves Katherine Howard and Catherine Parr have become defined in apopular sense not so much by their lives as by the way these lives ended. Butas Antonia Fraser conclusively proves they were rich and feisty characters.They may have been victims of Henrys obsession with a male heir but they werenot willing victims. On the contrary they displayed considerable strength andintelligence at a time when their sex supposedly possessed little of either.Inevitably there was great rivalry between them and there was jealousy too the desperate jealousy of Queens who found themselves abandoned but also thesexual jealousy of the King who discovered himself betrayed. The story AntoniaFraser tells is romantic and cruel funny and sad dramatic and enthralling. «