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conversations.value: What could be a title for a book about Neither, Starkey, Weir with the genre: Biographies & Memoirs, Historical?
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conversations.value: A title for this book could be 'The Six Wives of Henry VIII'
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conversations.value: a description for a book titled The Six Wives of Henry VIII about Henry, VIII, British with the genre: History, Europe
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conversations.value: One of the most powerful monarchs in British history, Henry VIII ruled England in unprecedented splendour. In this remarkable composite biography, the author brings Henry's six wives vividly to life, revealing each as a distinct and compelling personality in her own right. Drawing upon the rich fund of documentary material from the Tudor period, "The Six Wives of Henry VIII" shows us a court where personal needs frequently influenced public events and where a life of gorgeously ritualised pleasure was shot through with ambition, treason and violence.
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conversations.value: a plot for a book titled The Six Wives of Henry VIII about Neither, Starkey, Weir with the genre: Biographies & Memoirs, Historical. End with the sentence '\nStill in her mourning clothes, Catherine berates him for trying to take the king\'s place, but accepts.'.
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conversations.value: The Six Wives of Henry VIII (BBC TV series): Catherine\'s marriage to Arthur, Prince of Wales, ends with his early death.\nOver the next few years, Catherine faces money trouble and arrangements for her to marry Prince Henry are unclear.\nWhen Henry VII dies, Henry VIII chooses Catherine as his wife, as his dying father requested.\nAfter a short scene of Catherine\'s son\'s death (her second pregnancy, after a stillbirth), and her weeping in Henry\'s arms, the programme cuts to her older days where Henry falls in love with Anne Boleyn.\nHenry wants a male heir and after several pregnancies only one child of Catherine\'s and Henry\'s has survived, the princess Mary (the future Queen Mary I).\nCatherine is heartbroken when Henry tells her he wants a divorce.\nThere are several court scenes discussing the annulment.\nCardinal Thomas Wolsey does all he can to accomplish Henry\'s desire for a divorce from Catherine, but ultimately fails (and later dies en route to the Tower of London).\nHenry attempts to have a Papal Trial in England, to call into question the validity of his marriage to Catherine.\nBut when Rome and the Pope revoke this attempt, Henry begins his break with the Catholic Church and starts to sow the seeds of the eventual English Reformation.\nCatherine is eventually told her marriage to Henry has been annulled, and that Henry has married Anne.\nCatherine is moved to Wolsey\'s house until she dies, with María de Salinas (her most faithful servant) by her side.\nWhile there, they receive the news that Anne has had her child, the future queen Elizabeth The episode ends with Catherine dying in her bed, María de Salinas beside her and Henry reading a loving final letter from Catherine.\nHenry crushes the letter callously, and walks dominatingly towards the camera, resembling the Hans Holbein portrait.\nHaving seen Anne\'s rise in the preceding episode, this episode focuses primarily on her downfall, documenting the disintegration of her marriage in the face of two miscarriages and the king\'s infidelities.\nAnne\'s brother, Sir George Boleyn (with whom she was accused of having incest), is shown anxiously trying to advise and counsel her to be more prudent and cautious in her conduct with the King.\nBut Anne continues to berate Henry for his infidelities, which elicits not-so-veiled threats from him in return.\nAnne\'s final failure to give Henry a son seals her doom.\nThe storyline was heavily influenced by academic theories that believed Anne was the victim of a factional and political plot, concocted by her many enemies (among them, Thomas Cromwell and Lady Rochford, Anne\'s treacherous sister-in-law), who capitalised on the king\'s disillusionment with her.\nAs with most media treatments of Anne\'s destruction, the episode followed the historical research, which has all but proved her innocence.\nThe scriptwriter used Anne\'s final confession of her sins (a burden that Archbishop Thomas Cranmer would have to bear to the end of his days), to suggest her total innocence on charges of adultery, incest, treason and witchcraft.\nJane gives birth to Prince Edward, (the future Edward VI).\nWhen she is taken to her child\'s christening, she is in pain and is near death; while lying in her sickbed, the events of her life flash before her in a fever dream.\nShe remembers how Henry fell in love with her, and how her relatives (and certain of Henry\'s councillors like Thomas Cromwell, Bishop Stephen Gardiner, and others), schemed to bring about the downfall of Anne Boleyn and the subsequent rise of Jane.\nDirectly after Anne is executed, Henry and Jane are married.\nDuring her short time as queen, Jane tries with some success to reconcile the Princess Mary with Henry.\nHer pregnancy is a guilt-filled one.\nShe is tormented by the fact that her predecessor was innocent; the victim of false witness.\nAfter Jane gives birth to the prince, she falls ill; this brings the episode full circle.\nJane dies, and the last images we see here are her body lying in state, arrayed like a queen and Henry weeping by Jane\'s funeral bier.\nWith three dead wives behind him, Henry is urged by his counselors to marry again and further secure the succession.\nThomas Cromwell encourages him in an alliance with Protestant Germany, so he considers one of the Duke of Cleves\' sisters, Anne or Amelia.\nHe sends artist Hans Holbein, who paints both girls.\nBased on this portrait and good reports of her, Henry chooses Anne and she is sent to marry the king.\nWhen she reaches England, Henry wishes to surprise her, so he goes to see her for the first time in disguise.\nHe arrives unannounced, and Anne is horrified when she learns the obese and bawdy "messenger" is really her betrothed.\nHenry, rattled by her reaction, declares her ugly and attempts to nullify the marriage contract, but the marriage proceeds with two unwilling participants.\nWhen the time comes to consummate their union, Anne sees a possible escape from the marriage by stalling the already unenthusiastic king.\nIn the weeks that follow, Anne and Henry live separate lives at court, although Anne is shown as being close to his children, especially little Elizabeth.\nPolitics then take centre stage as Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk, plans Cromwell\'s downfall by playing on Henry\'s infatuation with his young niece, Catherine Howard.\nThe reasons for the German alliance have also shifted, making the marriage to Anne politically inconvenient.\nCromwell, the architect of the alliance, knows he is doomed and warns Anne, who plans an exit from the marriage rather than risk a worse fate.\nArchbishop Thomas Cranmer offers Anne advice and sympathy; they both regret Cromwell\'s and Robert Barnes\' downfall.\nEncouraging Henry to think it is his own idea, Anne tells Henry that she understands his demands for an annulment, and suggests that he give her a household of her own, and continued contact with Henry\'s children, of whom she is fond.\nShe points out that if they both agree that the marriage was never consummated, it should be easy to have it annulled.\nGiven a graceful exit from a marriage and wife he has no interest in, Henry gradually agrees, saying "Good night, my dear sister".\nThe episode ends on Anne\'s bittersweet but relieved expression.\nThe portrayal of Anne of Cleves is based largely on the writer\'s interpretation of obscure historical events.\nShe is shown to have a strong grasp of politics, which is historically unlikely, although it provides an interesting interpretation to the facts of the annulment and the even more unlikely fact that Anne of Cleves survived her marriage to Henry.\nThe Duke of Norfolk visits his elderly mother to see if one of his nieces would be a likely enticement for the king.\nHis ambition is clear: he wants a Howard on the throne of England.\nWe meet Catherine Howard, a pretty and foolhardy teenager, who confides in her cousin Anne Carey that she had sexual relations with a young man named Francis Dereham the previous summer.\nShe is taken by her governess, Lady Rochford (the former sister-in-law of the late queen Anne Boleyn), to her uncle, who informs her that she is to be the next Queen of England.\nShe states her concerns because of what happened to Anne but Norfolk assures her if she listens to him all will be well, and stresses that she must not show fear or timidity when addressing the king.\nNorfolk is unaware of his niece\'s sexually active past, and Catherine lies about it, telling him that she is untouched.\nShe is taken to meet the king.\nHenry, long ill with an ulcer on his leg, is immediately taken with the pretty young girl.\nShe nurses and flirts with him and Norfolk\'s dream seems closer.\nThe king decides to take her as his wife but on their wedding night Henry\'s impotence is an obstacle.\nAnother obstacle comes when the young Dereham comes to visit the queen and blackmails her regarding their prior romance.\nShe gives him the job of Private Secretary to her, to keep him quiet.\nTo secure her future, Norfolk insists she produce a male heir, in any way possible.\nCatherine (with the help of Lady Rochford as a go-between) begins a desperate affair with Thomas Culpeper, Henry\'s young and dashing personal aide, who is already overwhelmingly smitten with her.\nBut months pass with no sign of a child, and the court begins to know about the affair; as well the rampant rumours concerning Catherine\'s past indiscretions with both Dereham and a music teacher named Henry Mannox.\nWith disclosure threatened, Norfolk betrays his niece to the king before his enemies can.\nCulpeper and Dereham are taken to the Tower, tortured, and later executed.\nThere is then a dramatic scene where Norfolk and the king\'s guards come to arrest Catherine and the Lady Rochford.\nCatherine demands to see the king, but is denied.\nShe is taken to the Tower where she rehearses the speech she will give at her execution.\nThe episode ends with the king preparing for an operation on his ulcerated leg and banishing Norfolk, who is now very violently out of favour.\nHenry tells him that if he ever looks on him again, it will be only on his head.\nCatherine Parr, the recently widowed Lady Latimer, is called to an audience with the King.\nHenry, looking old in his fifties, corpulent, sick and lonely, takes to the mature twice-widowed lady; her honesty and calmness entice him.\nShe turns down his offer of marriage, however, only to be persuaded by the ambitious Seymour brothers, Edward and Thomas (brothers of the late queen Jane Seymour) to accept Henry\'s proposal.\nThomas, even though he and Catherine have romantic feelings for each other, is especially eager to have Catherine marry Henry.\nArchbishop Thomas Cranmer also encourages the devoutly Protestant Catherine to marry the King.\nCatherine soon becomes Queen of England; her natural maternal instinct is put into practice with the king\'s children, Mary, Elizabeth and Edward.\nHowever, Catholic Bishop Gardiner takes a dislike to Catherine\'s religious views.\nHe plots her downfall, and questions her ladies.\nGardiner even has one woman, Anne Askew (not one of Catherine\'s ladies, but a notable religious writer and speaker whose works Catherine had read), on the rack.\nCatherine is horrified by Askew\'s story and confronts her husband and Gardiner.\nHenry is angered by her liberal opinions and angrily rejects her.\nSoon, a warrant for the queen to be arrested and "examined" (which is practically a death sentence), is made out.\nCatherine is terrified, but Archbishop Cranmer advises her to assume a modest, humble, apologetic pose to the king, and Henry forgives her.\nSoon after, Henry suddenly collapses, obviously near death.\nAfter a long wait, the King dies, and Thomas Seymour asks Catherine to marry him.\nStill in her mourning clothes, Catherine berates him for trying to take the king\'s place, but accepts.
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  Henry VII's instructions to the City of London for the state reception of Katherine of Aragon are in the Corporation of London Records Office and also in the Harleian MS. and Cotton MS. Katherine of Aragon's departure from Spain and journey to England is described by Bernaldes.
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conversations.value: The Six Wives of Henry VIII
  Henry VII's instructions to the City of London for the state reception of Katherine of Aragon are in the Corporation of London Records Office and also in the Harleian MS. and Cotton MS. Vitellius in the British Library. Katherine of Aragon's departure from Spain and journey to England is described by Bernaldes.
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