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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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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. |
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| 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