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Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII

David Starkey

Paperback | Pages: 880 pages

Rating: 4.14 | 9114 Users | 315 Reviews

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Original Title:	Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII
ISBN:	0060005505 (ISBN13: 9780060005504)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Anne Boleyn, Catherine of Aragon, Jane Seymour, Catherine Howard, Anne of Cleves, Thomas Cromwell, Thomas Wolsey, Henry VIII of England, Eustace Chapuys, Catherine Parr

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No one in history had a more eventful career in matrimony than Henry VIII. His marriages were daring and tumultuous, and made instant legends of six very different women. In this remarkable study, David Starkey argues that the king was not a depraved philanderer but someone seeking happiness -- and a son. Knowingly or not, he elevated a group of women to extraordinary heights and changed the way a nation was governed.

Six Wives is a masterful work of history that intimately examines the rituals of diplomacy, marriage, pregnancy, and religion that were part of daily life for women at the Tudor Court. Weaving new facts and fresh interpretations into a spellbinding account of the emotional drama surrounding Henry's six marriages, David Starkey reveals the central role that the queens played in determining policy. With an equally keen eye for romantic and political intrigue, he brilliantly recaptures the story of Henry's wives and the England they ruled.

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Title	:	Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII
Author	:	David Starkey
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 880 pages
Published	:	May 4th 2004 by Harper Perennial (first published 2003)
Categories	:	History. Nonfiction. Biography. English History. Tudor Period. Historical

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I found this incredibly fascinating, although I did come in without a great deal of factual historical background. It was interesting to me the way the book seemed to sort of follow the pace of Henry's life, whether or not that was intentional. The Catherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn sections were by far the most gripping and engaging, and of course, the longest. By the time Catherine Parr rolled around, the narrative - and, of course, Henry himself - really starts winding down. It does have it

I had to make an 'unfinished' shelf just for this book. I stopped reading at the preface due to Starkey's derogatory comment about Agnes Strickland: 'She charmed (she was very pretty, especially for a scholar) her way into the national archives of both Britain and France.' pg xviii.I felt it wasn't necessary to continue reading his work if he felt it necessary to make comments about another historian's appearance and how that influenced her work, as it is supremely irrelevant. His tone

I enjoyed reading this. I know a lot of people find Starkey off putting but I like to see a bit of personality in an information heavy read. The main complaint I've seen is that he blows his own trumpet a bit too much. Im not bothered by that. He's a well accepted authority on Tudor England and he's got other books to sell. A bit of in-book marketing is all I see. If information or an interpretation thereof is new then why not point it out. If you've nothing new to say then you're just relaying

Finished "Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII" by David Starkey. I started this one because of the Tudors series on Showtime, which I'm still in the middle of, and found the two overlap quite a bit. Taking the author at his word, it is amusing that the further away we get from events of King Henry VIII's reign, the more accurate the information about the event becomes. On the other hand, the author had an attitude of superiority over other historians with all the cattiness of a royal reporter.



Review - I love David Starkey's writing. It's exciting and detailed, and Starkey offers new opinions on all of Henry VIII's wives. Obviously his chapters on Katherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn are the longest, as the most is known about them and most of the interpretation is based around them. However, the chapters on Jane Seymour and Anne of Cleves in particular are barely worth having. The Katherine Howard chapter is also short. The chapter on Catherine Parr is a little longer, but I think

I've read several books about King Henry VIII and some of his wives/mistresses (I.e. Catherine of Aragon, Anne and Mary Boleyn) but this is my first that covers all of the wives. I'm afraid it was pretty dull. I was put off immediately by the arrogant tone of the writing, David Starkey sounds like he things an awful lot of himself. The writing was peppered with little asides similar to 'all other historians think this, but they were wrong, here's what really happened'. As if Mr. Starkey was