Six Wives

New facts and fresh interpretations are blended into a spellbinding account of the emotional drama and political intrigue that attended Henry's marriages.

List of Illustrations

ix

Family Trees

xii

Introduction

xv

HENRY'S WEDDINGS

3

(763)

PART ONE: QUEEN CATHERINE OF ARAGON

Parents: a power couple

11

(4)

Education for power

15

(3)

Power weddings

18

(3)

England

21

(3)

Negotiations

24

(2)

Arthur

26

(2)

Preparations

28

(3)

Delays

31

(2)

Dogma

33

(5)

The journey

38

(2)

Arrival

40

(4)

Meeting

44

(4)

Hubris

48

(4)

London

52

(6)

Wedding and bedding

58

(4)

The morning after

62

(11)

Nemesis

73

(6)

A new marriage?

79

(8)

Hard times

87

(6)

Harder time

93

(6)

Hope and despair

99

(7)

Queen

106

(8)

Honeymoon

114

(6)

A son

120

(3)

War

123

(12)

Regent

135

(14)

The breach with Spain

149

(6)

The quest for an heir

155

(5)

On the shelf

160

(4)

Mary

164

(15)

Marrying Mary

179

(18)

PART TWO: RIVAL QUEENS

Divorcing Catherine

The preliminaries

197

(8)

Trial in secret

205

(7)

Between trials

212

(9)

The legate

221

(4)

The Brief

225

(7)

Trial in open court

232

(16)

The aftermath

248

(9)

Anne Boleyn

Beginnings

257

(7)

Debut

264

(14)

Henry in love

278

(6)

Sole mistress

284

(1)

Henry and Anne: `Our Matter'

285

(9)

Mistress and Minister

294

(10)

Anne's envoy

304

(9)

Wolsey reascendant

313

(4)

Co-operation?

317

(8)

Wolsey's triumph

325

(5)

The sweat

330

(5)

Turning point

335

(4)

Disillusionment

339

(16)

Wolsey's fall

355

(12)

Injurious remedies

367

(17)

Cranmer

384

(24)

The Royal Supremacy

408

(13)

Wolsey's end

421

(12)

Attacking Catherine

433

(12)

Preliminaries to marriage

445

(17)

Anne's marriage

462

(5)

Archbishop

467

(10)

Divorce Absolute

477

(12)

Coronation

489

(14)

Christening

503

(7)

Resistance

510

(14)

Hearts and minds

524

(17)

The death of Catherine of Aragon

541

(8)

Reaction

549

(5)

Fall

554

(15)

The Tower

569

(15)

Jane Seymour

She stoops to conquer?

584

(27)

PART THREE: THE LATER QUEENS

A Conversation

611

(6)

Anne of Cleves

From Queen to sister

617

(27)

Catherine Howard

Virtuous and good behaviour'?

644

(41)

Interlude

685

(5)

Catherine Parr

A courtier's daughter

690

(21)

Queen Catherine

711

(20)

Queen Regent

731

(21)

The test

752

(14)

Notes

766

(53)

Index

819

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