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As the swordsman of Calais sunk his blade into the tender flesh of Anne Boleyn’s neck, her head tumbled from her body and her life met its very tragic end. Her unexpected execution shocked the Tudor court – after all, only years before an infatuated King Henry VIII had revolutionised the Church in order to marry his young mistress, tearing apart a nation and abandoning a wife and daughter in the process. So what led to the terrible downfall of England’s reviled queen, and what fate did the king’s other five wives face? In Anne Boleyn and the Six Wives, meet the women who captured the womanising king’s heart, from the devoted and pious Catherine of Aragon to the shrewd Catherine Parr. Over the following pages, find out why Henry considered Jane Seymour to be his ‘true wife’, delve into the short-lived marriage of Henry and Anne of Cleves, and learn how Catherine Howard met her pitiful demise. Elsewhere, uncover the story of the woman rumoured to be lined up as the seventh wife, and explore the legacy of England’s six queens, from the Tudor succession crisis to the Protestant Reformation.