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A biography of the woman whose marriage to King Henry VIII of England resulted in an irreversible break between the Church of England and the Papacy, the birth of the future Queen Elizabeth I, and in her own beheading.

A new study of the sixteenth century English monarch who married six times in an effort to produce a male heir.

Flodden 1513: the biggest and bloodiest anglo-scottish battle. Its causes spanned many centuries; its consequences were as extraordinary as the battle itself.

Thomas Cromwell was one of the strongest supporters of the English Reformation. At a time when lineage meant everything, Cromwell rose from poor beginnings to become chief minister to King Henry VIII. However, at the moment of his greatest triumph, Cromwell was struck down and destroyed. He fell victim to the King's anger and was beheaded on 28 July 1540. Cromwell has gone down in history as ambitious and corrupt; a ruthless politician who destroyed...

'Henry VIII' focuses on the fluctuating, often fraught relationship between the king and his court, his Church and his people - and with the other powers of continental Europe, relations with whom were thrown into turmoil by Henry's successive marriages.

"The most controversial woman ever to have been queen consort of England. In the relationship between Henry and his second wife, storm followed sunshine, sunshine followed storm...The conventions of the day, of courtly love, of sovereign and consort, of husband and wife, were simply not capable of accommodating the fierce passions which united Anne Boleyn and Henry Tudor. Brief though Anne's influence was, it was a thousand days of support for reform...