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Henry Viii and His Six Wives HENRY VIII AND HIS SIX WIVES King Henry the Eighth of England was famous for many things, but he was also famous because he had six wives. He was not a kind husband. People say that when he was looking for a new wife, careful fathers took their daughters away from the palace. They did not want the King to choose their daughter to be the next Queen, because some of his Queens had very short and unhappy lives. Why did King Henry divorce two wives, and kill two others? What were his queens really like? Catherine Parr, the sixth wife, lived on after the King's death. One day she goes back to the palace of Whitehall and finds a box of old letters written to the King — one from each of the first five wives. She sits down to read them to her young maid, Margaret. The first letter is from the daughter of the King of Spain, Katherine of Aragon, who was Henry's wife for twenty-four years. She died alone and sad and friendless . Y LIBRAR S BOOKWORM D OXFOR True Stories Henry VIII and his Six Wives ) headwords 0 (70 2 e Stag t Basset r Jennife : Editor s Serie Founder Editor: Tricia Hedge Activities Editors: Jennifer Bassett and Alison Baxter JANET HARDY-GOULD I VII y Henr and his Six Wives S PRES Y UNIVERSIT D OXFOR OXFORD S PRES Y UNIVERSIT Great Clarendon Street, Oxford 0x2 6DP CONTENTS STORY INTRODUCTION i 1 King Henry is dead 1 2 Katherine of Aragon 6 OXFORD and OXFORD ENGLISH are registered trade marks of Oxford University Press in the UK and in certain other countries n Boley e Ann 3 11 8 200 s Pres y Universit d Oxfor © n editio s Thi The moral rights of the author have been asserted r Seymou e Jan 4 18 ) (maker s Pres y Universit d Oxfor t righ e Databas 23 6 199 s Bookworm d Oxfor n i d publishe t Firs s Cleve f o e Ann 5 6 Katherine Howard 28 7 Catherine Parr 33 GLOSSARY 41 g Readin e Befor : ACTIVITIES 44 ACTIVITIES: While Reading 46 g Readin r Afte : ACTIVITIES 49 R AUTHO E TH T ABOU 52 8 2 47906 9 1 0 8 97 N ISB A complete recording of this Bookworms edition of Wivesx HenrySi s availabls i hi d VIIIan audin eo ISB D 0194789858 oC N97 1 g Kon g Hon n i d Printe ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Original illustrations by: Richard Alien to thank to like would publishers The following for their permission to reproduce illustrations: reproduce to permission their for following the The Bridgeman Art Library p 19, 24; His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury p 36; The Hulton Deutsch Collection Limited p 34; National Portrait Gallery p 3, 7, 12; 9 2 p I I h Elizabet n Quee y Majest r He © n Collectio l Roya e Th s word 0 631 : text) n (mai t coun d Wor , Library s Bookworm d Oxfor e th n o n informatio e mor r Fo visit www.oup.corn/elt/bookworms 1 dead is Henry King e th s wa I o ag h mont A . 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