SIX WIVES #6: Catherine Parr, the Final Wife

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Blair is in a Toronto Fringe show!History starts around 33minsWe are kicking off summer school with out first (very dense) episode of the Romanovs!!! Enjoy girls <3Send us an email, and we might read it on the pod!!!! girlhistorians@gmail.comGIRL HISTORIANS MERCH <3Sign up on Pat ...  Show more

Henry VIII called her his 'rose without a thorn', but the teenage Catherine Howard was to fall out of favour less than 18 months after becoming Queen of England.

Out of all of Henry's wives it could be argued that the young queen, who was a cousin of Anne Boleyn, is ...

At the time, surely Kateryn Parr had her reservations about being Henry VIII's sixth wife?

Aside from being a tyrannical maniac who'd just beheaded his last wife, Catherine Howard, he was getting old, angry and his ulcerous leg was getting smelly.

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Meek and mild, or smart and scheming? Have we all been underestimating the third wife of Henry VIII?

Was Jane Seymour the meek and mild lady she's often portrayed as, or was she more smart and scheming than we give her credit for?

Although her time as queen ...

We know the fates of Henry VIII's wives, but what were these iconic women really like?

In the first episode of this limited series, Secret Lives of the Six Wives, we'll explore the ways that Catherine of Aragon was a formidable queen and leader, and ...