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The Six Wives Of Henry VIII [Audiobook] [CD] (Audio CD)

by Antonia Fraser (Author), Isla Blair (Reader)
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  • Audio CD
  • Publisher: Orion (5 Feb 2004)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0752861425
  • ISBN-13: 978-0752861425
  • Product Dimensions: 14.2 x 12.6 x 2.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 415,690 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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'Biography with attitude is Fraser's speciality, and this study of the Tudor queens is as partisan and feistily argued as any she has done. Though the marauding Henry come out of it - as one would expect - badly, Frazer's favourite queen is, unexpectedly, Anna of Cleves, who kept her head, took Henry's money and spent the rest of her days carousing her way around a series of comfortable country houses, emerging only to do some serious shopping. Catherine of Aragon, as spirited as she is spiritu (IRISH TIMES )


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"Divorced, beheaded, died; divorced, beheaded, survived.' So the six wives of Henry VIII - Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anna of Cleves, Katherine Howard and Catherine Parr - have become defined in a popular sense not so much by their lives as by the way these lives ended. In the same way their characters are popularly portrayed as female stereotypes: the Betrayed Wife, the Temptress, the Good Woman, the Ugly Sister, the Bad Girl and, finally, the Mother Figure. But, as Antonia Fraser brilliantly and conclusively proves, they were rich and feisty characters. They may have been victims of Henry's obsession with a male heir, but they were not willing victims. On the contrary, they exhibited remarkable degrees of spirit and defiance of which women living now might still be proud. They displayed considerable strength and intelligence at a time when their sex supposedly possessed little of either. Antonia Fraser deals with each woman in turn with sympathy - the sympathy they deserve for having had the unenviable fate of being Henry's wife. Inevitably there was great rivalry between them, so high were the stakes in the great game of marrying the King of England. There was jealousy too - the desperate jealousy of Queens who found themselves abandoned, but also the sexual jealousy of the King who discovered himself betrayed. The story Antonia Fraser tells is romantic and cruel, funny and sad, dramatic and enthralling. This is historical biography at its best. "An intoxicating mixture of sex, sentiment and court intrigue... Fraser has the knack... of making history not merely readable but irresistible" Sunday Times
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3 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful Listening, 21 Mar 2007
By J. Chippindale (England) - See all my reviews
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There are dozens of books on the bookshop shelves about Henry and his willing and not so willing wives. So why pick this one up and buy it. Two simple words, the authoress. Antonia Fraser has written many excellent historical works, most of which have become best sellers. Why? Because she is the best there is at it.

Her eye for detail brings all of her books to life and takes the reader into a magical world. This is not one of those boring historical tomes that sit on the shelf gathering dust from one year to the next.

This book takes the viewpoint of the women in the life of the then monarch of England, Henry VIII, not a very nice man, one would think from the information most of us have about him. But did the women in his life think of him in the same way. Was he funny? Did he make them laugh. Anne Boleyn, I am sure did not find him very funny when she was on the scaffold, but something must have attracted her to him. Was he charming? To have wooed so many women I am sure he was.

Anne Boleyn was the second wife of Henry and bearing in mind what happened to her, the four wives who followed her must have been either very brave, or very foolish. Although in those days I know that women of rank did much as they were told, either by their parents or by there advisers. I use the term lightly.

This book gives you the answer to many questions you may have wondered about and much more besides. It is more than a work of historical fact. it is an excellent and interesting read.
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