Henry VIII and his Six Wives

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A level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Written for Learners of English by Janet Hardy-Gould.

There were six of them – three Katherines, two Annes, and a Jane. One of them was the King’s wife for twenty-four years, another for only a year and a half. One died, two were divorced, and two were beheaded. It was a dangerous, uncertain life.

After the King’s death in 1547, his sixth wife finds a box of old letters – one from each of the first five wives. They are sad, angry, frightened letters. They tell the story of what it was like to be the wife of Henry VIII of England.

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HENRY VIII AND HIS SIX WIVES

King Henry the Eighth of England was famous for many things, but he was also famous because he had six wives. He was not a kind husband. People say that when he was looking for a new wife, careful fathers took their daughters away from the palace. They did not want the King to choose their daughter to be the next Queen, because some of his Queens had very short and unhappy lives.

Why did King Henry divorce two wives, and kill two others? What were his queens really like?

Catherine Parr, the sixth wife, lived on after the King’s death. One day she goes back to the palace of Whitehall and finds a box of old letters written to the King – one from each of the first five wives. She sits down to read them to her young maid, Margaret. The first letter is from the daughter of the King of Spain, Katherine of Aragon, who was Henry’s wife for twenty-four years. She died alone and sad and friendless …

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Original illustrations by: Richard Allen

The publishers would like to thank the following for their permission to reproduce illustrations:

Bridgeman Art Library Ltd pp3 (Henry VIII as a young man, c.1516, Flemish School/ Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire, UK / The Fairhaven Collection National Trust Photographic Library/Derrick E. Witty), 7 (Portrait of Katherine of Aragon, Queen of England, English School / Private Collection / Photo © Philip Mould Ltd, London), 19 (Jane Seymour, 1536/Holbein the Younger, Hans/Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria), 24 (Portrait of Anne of Cleves 1539, Holbein the Younger, Hans / Louvre, Paris, France / Giraudon), 29 (Portrait of a Lady, c.1540, Holbein the Younger, Hans / The Royal Collection © 2011 Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II), 34 (Portrait of Henry VIII, 1548, Massys, Cornelis / National Portrait Gallery, London, UK), 36 (Portrait of a Lady, said to be Catherine Parr, English School, (16th century) / Lambeth Palace, London, UK); Corbis pp12 (Anne Boleyn/Heritage Images)

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