The six wives of Henry VIII
Henry VIII surrounded by his six wives, clockwise from top, Anne of Cleves (married 1540), Catherine Howard (married 1540–42), Anne Boleyn (married 1533–36), Catherine of Aragon (married 1509–33), Catherine Parr (1543–47), and Jane Seymour (1536–37).
The six wives of Henry VIII
As king of England from 1509 to 1547, Henry VIII may have presided over the beginnings of the English Renaissance and the English Reformation and incorporated Wales within the realm of England, but he is largely remembered for having six wives. The six queens can be hard to keep straight, and many schoolchildren in Britain learn a couplet that simplifies the fates of each woman to help them remember what happened: Read on to learn...
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