To his chief minister he once ‘lamented the state of princes… in marriage’ for ‘princes take as is brought to them by others’ while ‘poor men be commonly at their own choice and liberty’. Oddly enough, Henry was in many ways an incurable romantic. Since Henry went on to divorce his fourth wife, beheaded his fifth, and contemplated arresting his sixth on capital charges of heresy, the Duchess’s scepticism was amply justified. Under Antonia Frasers scrutiny, Catherine of Aragon emerges as a scholar-queen, Anne Boleyn is absolved of everything but a sharp tongue and an inability to. Henry’s ambassador protested that his master was ‘the most gentle gentleman that liveth’, but at this the Duchess found it hard to keep a straight face. The latter could summon little enthusiasm, for she had heard that Henry’s first wife ‘was poisoned, that the second was innocently put to death, and the third lost for lack of keeping in her childbed’. Under Antonia Frasers intent scrutiny, Catherine of Aragon emerges as a scholar-queen who steadfastly refused to grant a. When Henry was combing the Continent for a woman willing to become his fourth wife, English diplomats opened negotiations for the hand of the attractive young Duchess of Milan. The New York Times bestselling history of the legendary six wives of Henry VIII-from the acclaimed author of Marie Antoinette. Genre Biography.Even in his own lifetime, King Henry VIII became notorious throughout Europe for his serial marriages.
Monarchs Interpersonal relationships With Wives. Great Britain Kings and rulers Biography. Great Britain History Henry VIII, (1509-1547) Biography. Marriages of royalty and nobility Great Britain History 16th century.
Henry VIII, King of England (1491-1547) Marriage. Subjects Henry VIII, King of England (1491-1547). In a sweeping narrative, Fraser traces the cultural, familial and political. Item #288440 ISBN: 029764355X Physical description 494 p., p. The Wives Of Henry Viii By Antonia Fraser.2000Price. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved.
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