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Book Description No one in history has a more eventful career in matrimony than Henry VIII. He took his first bride, Catherine of Aragon, when he was 17. Their 24-year union was relatively stable, but Catherine failed to produce a male heir.

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Co sprawia, że mężczyzna żeni się sześć razy? Czy Henryk VIII był nienasyconym kobieciarzem? Wprost przeciwnie, twierdzi David Starkey, król tylko szukał szczęścia, a także kobiety, która dałaby mu syna. W swoim błyskotliwym studium autor obficie czerpie z listów i dokumentów epoki, opisując obyczaje związane z małżeństwem, ciążą, dyplomacją i religią. Kreuje bogaty w szczegóły obraz życia codziennego na renesansowym dworze Tudorów, malowany z kobiecej zwłaszcza perspektywy. Czy kochane, czy znienawidzone - królowe Henryka VIII miały wielki wpływ na kształt uprawianej przezeń polityki.

The monarchy is one of Britain's most venerable and revered institutions - but also one of its most tumultuous. In this substantially revised, updated and expanded volume, David Starkey charts its roller-coaster history from earliest times to the present. From the courtly love of the Middle Ages, through the turbulent reign of the Tudors, to the chaos of the Civil War that first unseated and then beheaded a king.
Starkey brings this tempestuous story up to the present, guiding us confidently through the Abdication Crisis to the dissolution of the marriage between Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer. A new introductory chapter looks at the wedding of Kate Middleton and Prince William, as well as many notorious royal marriages of earlier times. Rank and romance have played an important part in the story of monarchy down the ages.
Bringing to life a cast of colorful characters and some great stories, this is both an in-depth examination of the monarchy and a vividly iconoclastic portrait of British culture, politics and nationhood.

The pre-eminent study of the six wives of Henry VIII by a master historian.
Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived
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 Boleyn'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 flirtatious teenager whose adulteries made a fool of the ageing king... CATHERINE PARR: the shrewd, religiously radical bluestocking who outlived him...
In this dazzling study, David Starkey gives us a richly textured picture of daily life at the Tudor Court from the woman's point of view. Above all, he establishes the interaction of the private and the public, and demonstrates how the Queens of Henry VIII were central in determining political policy.