The Six Wives of Henry VIII (Channel 4, 2001)

Film Description

The women who married Henry VIII have become defined not

by the way they lived but by the way their lives ended.

They are seen as victims of a bloated tyrant, deserving pity, but not respect.

However, have we under-estimated them and are historians

right to have merely portrayed them as bit-part players in

Henry’s story?

Using dramatic reconstruction and passionate narration,

eminent historian and presenter Dr David Starkey focuses on

the stories of the women themselves, revealing in intimate

detail their experiences of sex, childbirth and the glamorous, dangerous life at court, including the deadly intrigues that dethroned them.

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