• Hubs
  • tagged wives king

1-2 of 2 hubssort by Hot Best Latest

Catherine of Aragon in c. 1503, as the widowed Princess of Wales84

King Henry VIII and his six wives - love, marriage, and children

Every English schoolchild knows the rhyme, "divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived", about, in turn, Katherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anne of Cleves, Katherine Howard, and Catherine Parr. This article is about Henry the man - his loves, his wives, his children. Famous for having six wives, Henry is said to be the only English King to have had more wives than mistresses.

29 comments    history king henry viii tudor
83

The Wives of King Henry VIII: Jane Seymour

Out of all of the wives of King Henry VII, Jane Seymour is matched only by Anne of Cleaves in her simpleness. She was not royal, she caused few problems, and she managed to die of natural causes rather than...

2 comments    politics history king henry viii
working