Episode 1 | Six Wives Of Henry VIII

Dr David Starkey reveals the stories behind Henry's third and fourth wives. Henry married Jane Seymour the day after Anne Boleyn's execution. She seemed to be a perfect contrast to Anne - modest, quiet and apparently demure. Yet she played the game of sexual politics brilliantly by cultivating Henry and refusing to sleep with him until they were married.

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Episode 1 | Six Wives Of Henry VIII

Episode 1 | Six Wives Of Henry VIII

Channel 4 | 2001 | 49'33''

Dr David Starkey reveals the stories behind Henry's third and fourth wives. Henry married Jane Seymour the day after Anne Boleyn's execut...

Episode 2 | Six Wives Of Henry VIII

Episode 2 | Six Wives Of Henry VIII

Channel 4 | 2001 | 49'26''

Dr David Starkey reveals the stories behind Henry's last two wives, Katherine Howard a teenager with a past, and catherine Parr, a mature...

Episode 3 | Six Wives Of Henry VIII

Episode 3 | Six Wives Of Henry VIII

Channel 4 | 2001 | 48'57''

Historian David Starkey tells the story of Anne Boleyn, who charmed Henry VIII with her seductive French ways and gave him his second dau...

Episode 4 | Six Wives Of Henry VIII

Episode 4 | Six Wives Of Henry VIII

Channel 4 | 2001 | 49'14''

The series begins with the story of catherine of Aragon, a remarkable woman whose refusal to accept a divorce in defiance of Henry VIII's...

Episode 1 | Six Wives Of Henry VIII

Episode 1 | Six Wives Of Henry VIII

Channel 4 | 2001 | 49'33''

Dr David Starkey reveals the stories behind Henry's third and fourth wives. Henry married Jane Seymour the day after Anne Boleyn's execut...

Episode 2 | Six Wives Of Henry VIII

Episode 2 | Six Wives Of Henry VIII

Channel 4 | 2001 | 49'26''

Dr David Starkey reveals the stories behind Henry's last two wives, Katherine Howard a teenager with a past, and catherine Parr, a mature...

Episode 3 | Six Wives Of Henry VIII

Episode 3 | Six Wives Of Henry VIII

Channel 4 | 2001 | 48'57''

Historian David Starkey tells the story of Anne Boleyn, who charmed Henry VIII with her seductive French ways and gave him his second dau...

Episode 4 | Six Wives Of Henry VIII

Episode 4 | Six Wives Of Henry VIII

Channel 4 | 2001 | 49'14''

The series begins with the story of catherine of Aragon, a remarkable woman whose refusal to accept a divorce in defiance of Henry VIII's...
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