Wives of Henry the Eighth and the Parts They Played in History-Martin A. S. Hume (Part 2 of 2)

Normans in European History · Nov 5, 2026 · 5h 36m

Wives of Henry the Eighth and the Parts They Played in History by Martin A. S. Hume.

King Henry VIII is so often depicted as a far-seeing statesman, pressing forward through a lifetime with his eyes firmly fixed upon the goal of England’s religious freedom. Similarly, the lives of each of Henry’s six wives are often described as isolated phenomenon that had by chance attracted the desire of a lascivious despot, and in her turn had been deposed when his eye had fallen, equally fortuitously, upon another woman who pleased his errant fancy better. In this book the author regards Henry as a weak…