قراءة كتاب The Wives of Henry the Eighth and the Parts They Played in History

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The Wives of Henry the Eighth and the Parts They Played in History

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Hume Martin A S (Martin Andrew Sharp)

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DIVORCE

124 CHAPTER V 1530-1534 HENRY’S DEFIANCE—THE VICTORY OF ANNE 174 CHAPTER VI 1534-1536 A FLEETING TRIUMPH—POLITICAL INTRIGUE AND THE BETRAYAL OF ANNE 225 CHAPTER VII 1536-1540 PLOT AND COUNTERPLOT—JANE SEYMOUR AND ANNE OF CLEVES 289 CHAPTER VIII 1540-1542 THE KING’S “GOOD SISTER” AND THE KING’S BAD WIFE—THE LUTHERANS AND ENGLISH CATHOLICS 350 CHAPTER IX 1542-1547 KATHARINE PARR—THE PROTESTANTS WIN THE LAST TRICK 398

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Henry VIII	Frontispiece
From a portrait by Jost Van Cleef in the Royal Collection at Hampton Court Palace.

Katharine of Aragon	To face page	96
From a portrait by Holbein in the National Portrait Gallery.

Anne Boleyn	" "	192
From a portrait by Lucas Cornelisz in the National Portrait Gallery.

Jane Seymour	" "	288
From a painting by Holbein in the Imperial Collection at Vienna.

Anne of Cleves	" "	336
From a portrait by a German artist in St. John’s College, Oxford. Photographed by the Clarendon Press, and reproduced by the kind permission of the President of St. John’s College.

Katharine Howard	" "	384
From a portrait by an unknown artist in the National Portrait Gallery.

Katharine Parr	" "	400
From a painting in the collection of the Earl Of Ashburnham. Reproduced by the kind permission of the owner.

Henry VIII	" "	432
From a portrait by Holbein in the possession of the Earl of Warwick. Reproduced by the kind permission of the owner.

THE WIVES OF HENRY THE EIGHTH

CHAPTER I

1488-1501

INTRODUCTORY—WHY KATHARINE CAME TO ENGLAND—POLITICAL MATRIMONY

The history of modern Europe takes its start from an event which must have appeared insignificant to a generation that had witnessed the violent end of the English dominion in France, had been dinned by the clash of the Wars of the Roses, and watched with breathless fear the savage hosts of Islam striking at the heart of Christendom over the still smoking ruins of the Byzantine Empire.

Late one night, in the beginning of October 1469, a cavalcade of men in the guise of traders halted beneath

قراءة كتاب The Wives of Henry the Eighth and the Parts They Played in History