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Jan 28, 2020 · Imagno/Getty Images. Catherine of Aragon. Henry took the throne in 1509, at age 17. Six weeks later, he married Catherine of Aragon, daughter of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain and the ...
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In common parlance, the wives of Henry VIII were the six queens consort of King Henry VIII of England between 1509 and his death in 1547. In legal terms ( de jure ), Henry had only three wives, because three of his marriages were annulled by the Church of England. He was never granted an annulment by the Pope, as he desired, however, for ...
Armiger(date As Queen)NotesCatherine of Aragon1509–1533The Royal Arms, impaled with that of her ...Anne Boleyn1533–1536The Royal Arms, impaled with that of her ...Jane Seymour1536–1537The Royal Arms, impaled with that of her ...Anne of ClevesJanuary–July 1540The Royal Arms, impaled with that of her ...Anne Boleyn: Directed by Naomi Capon. With Dorothy Tutin, Keith Michell, Michael Osborne, Sheila Burrell. Queen Catherine is dead and now Anne Boleyn is Queen, but now two years after her marriage her promise to give Henry a son remains unfulfilled and the outcome will lead more than one person to the scaffold.
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- Naomi Capon
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- Mark Cartwright
- Henry VIII. Henry VIII, second of the Tudor kings after his father Henry VII of England (r. 1485-1509 CE), inherited a relatively stable and wealthy kingdom.
- Catherine of Aragon. Catherine of Aragon (1485-1536 CE) was the youngest daughter of King Ferdinand II of Aragon (r. 1479-1516 CE) and Queen Isabella of Castile (l.
- Anne Boleyn. Anne Boleyn (c. 1501-1536 CE) was a lady-in-waiting at court, the younger sister of Mary Boleyn, a former lover of King Henry. She was the daughter of Sir Thomas Boleyn (future Earl of Wiltshire) and Elizabeth Howard, the daughter of Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk.
- Jane Seymour. On the same day as Anne's execution, heartless Henry announced his engagement to Jane Seymour (c. 1509-1537 CE), a lady-in-waiting to both of Henry's previous queens.
- Catherine of Aragon (1485–1536) Born in Alcalá de Henares, Princess Catherine was betrothed to England’s Prince Arthur at the age of three. A devout Catholic, she was married to Henry for nearly 24 years and never acknowledged the annulment of their union.
- Anne Boleyn (c1501–1536) The daughter of a courtier and diplomat, Anne’s relationship with Henry brought about the English Reformation. She was the first English queen to be publicly executed.
- Jane Seymour (c1508–1537) Lady-in-waiting to Catherine of Aragon and then Anne Boleyn, Jane was the only one of Henry’s wives to receive a queen’s funeral, despite the fact she was never crowned.
- Anne of Cleves (1515–1557) Born in Düsseldorf, Anne was culturally unsophisticated by Tudor standards. She was referred to as ‘The King’s Beloved Sister’ after the annulment of her marriage to Henry.
Image: Annette Crosbie as Catherine of Aragon, Dorothy Tutin as Anne Boleyn Keith Michell as Henry VIII and Anne Stallybrass as Jane Seymour in a scene from the series The Six Wives Of Henry VIII.
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Jan 31, 2015 · Anne Boleyn. King Henry VIII married Anne Boleyn, his second wife, in a secret ceremony at Whitehall Palace in January 1533. Anne was pregnant at the time of the wedding and gave birth to the future Queen Elizabeth I six months later. Anne was beheaded in May 1536 on charges of adultery, treason, and inceste.
