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Titre original : Six Wives : The Queens of Henry VIII

Auteur :

David Starkey
Genre : HistoireDate de publication (pays d'origine) : 4 mai 2004Langue d'origine : Anglais

Éditeur :

Vintage Books
ISBN : 978009943724

Résumé : Catherine of Aragon, the pious Spanish Catholic who suffered years of miscarriages and failed to produce a male heir; Anne Boleyn, the pretty, clever, French-educated "Protestant" whose marriage to Henry changed England forever; Jane Seymour, the demure and submissive contrast to Anne's radical and vampish style; Anne of Cleves, "the mare of Flanders" whose short marriage to the overweight Henry followed a farcical "beauty contest"; Catherine Howard, the flirtarious teenager whose adulteries made a fool of the ageing King; Catherine Parr, the shrewd, religiously radical bluestocking who outlived him ...