Six Wives电子书

Cover

Title Page

Contents

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Family Trees

Introduction: Henry’s Weddings

Part One: Queen Catherine of Aragon

1. Parents: a power couple

2. Education for power

3. Power weddings

4. England

5. Negotiations

6. Arthur

7. Preparations

8. Delays

9. Dogma

10. The journey

11. Arrival

12. Meeting

13. Hubris

14. London

15. Wedding and bedding

16. The morning after

17. Nemesis

18. A new marriage?

19. Hard times

20. Harder times

21. Hope and despair

22. Queen

23. Honeymoon

24. A son

25. War

26. Regent

27. The breach with Spain

28. The quest for an heir

29. On the shelf

30. Mary

31. Marrying Mary

Part Two: Rival Queens

32. The preliminaries

33. Trial in secret

34. Between trials

35. The legate

36. The Brief

37. Trial in open court

38. The aftermath

39. Beginnings

40. Debut

41. Henry in love

42. Sole mistress

43. Henry and Anne: ‘Our Matter’

44. Mistress and Minister

45. Anne’s envoy

46. Wolsey reascendant

47. Co-operation?

48. Wolsey’s triumph

49. The sweat

50. Turning point

51. Disillusionment

52. Wolsey’s fall

53. Injurious remedies

54. Cranmer

55. The Royal Supremacy

56. Wolsey’s end

57. Attacking Catherine

58. Preliminaries to marriage

59. Anne’s marriage

60. Archbishop

61. Divorce Absolute

62. Coronation

63. Christening

64. Resistance

65. Hearts and minds

66. The death of Catherine of Aragon

67. Reaction

68. Fall

69. The Tower

70. She stoops to conquer?

Part Three: The Later Queens

71. A Conversation

72. From Queen to sister

73. ‘Virtuous and good behaviour’?

74. Interlude

75. A courtier’s daughter

76. Queen Catherine

77. Queen Regent

78. The test

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