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Catherine Parr was the sixth and last wife of King Henry VIII of England.

Hampton Court Palace is offering food and feasts, costumed re-enactments, exhibitions and live performances celebrating 500 years since Henry VIII became King of England.

Henry VIII regarded the birth of Henry Fitzroy as a sign from God he could hire a healthy living son. Fitzroy was illegitimate but he was also considered as an heir.

Henry VIII married Anne of Cleves to form a new alliance after relations between England, France and the Holy Roman Empire deteriorated. They divorced six months later.

Henry VIII declared Jane Seymour was the most beloved of all his wives-she provided the desired heir. Jane's quiet dignity hid a strong will and determination to succeed.

Mary Boleyn's life is retold-somewhat inaccurately-in both the novel and the movie, The Other Boleyn Girl. She had numerous affairs including two kings.

Matrimony was essential to the Tudor concept of divine order. God ruled the universe; the King ruled his realm and husbands ruled their families, especially their wives.

A movie about sex and sibling rivalry focusing on Anne Boleyn, the second wife of Henry VIII, and the role her sister Mary played as the King's mistress.

The Other Boleyn Girl, adapted from Philippa Gregory's novel, is loosely based on the lives of aristocratic sisters, Mary and Anne Boleyn, during Henry VIII's reign.

Catherine Parr was a loyal and sympathetic companion who nursed an increasingly irritable Henry VIII in his declining years by creating a domestic family life at court.

Henry VIII thought his fifth wife, Katherine Howard, was perfect. Katherine Howard was a woman with a past when she came to court in 1539, as a lady-in-waiting.

Lady Jane Grey is best known as history as the Nine Days Queen. She survived an unhappy childhood only to become a pawn in a conspiracy to usurp the throne.

Henry VII brought peace, prosperity and national pride to England. His reign ended the bloody Wars of the Roses. He became an outstandingly successful English king.

Rich in historical detail and beautifully written, Elizabeth the Queen is Alison Weir's stunning biography of Elizabeth I.

At the age of twenty one, Charlotte died in childbirth. Her death brought the succession into crisis and led to the eventual accession of Queen Victoria.

David Starkey is one of the greatest historians of all time, an excellent writer, an authoritative speaker and, at one time at least, Britain's rudest man.

In The Tudors (Season 2) Henry plans to divorce Katherine of Aragon to marry Anne Boleyn. He will do whatever it takes-even breaking from Rome.

Kathryn Howard was the fifth wife of Henry VIII and was executed for adultery.

Kathryn Howard, fifth wife of Henry VIII, was executed under accusations of infidelity, much like her cousin, Anne Boleyn.

Young and manipulated, Lady Jane Grey reluctantly seized the British throne in 1553 only to fall from grace nine days after assuming the title of England's first queen.

Having escaped the threat of execution and outlived the King, Katharine Parr was now able to marry her true love, Thomas Seymour.

Following the birth of her daughter Elizabeth, Anne Boleyn found her place in the court and heart of Henry VIII increasingly dangerous.

Famous for being the wife that outlived Henry VIII, Katharine Parr only narrowly escaped the same fate as two of her predocessors.

From a humble lady in waiting, Anne Boleyn became one of the most important figures in British history.

The most inconsequential of Henry VIII's wives, Catherine Howard's youthful indiscretions led to the same fate as that of her first cousin, Anne Boleyn.

After the scandal of his marriage to Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII's third wife ended years of unrest within the Royal court and fulfilled her most important duty as a Queen.

Although originally married to his brother Arthur, the marriage between Henry VIII and Katharine of Aragon was to be one of the most important in British history.

After being unkindly refered to as a "Flanders Mare", Anne of Cleves became one of the most wealthy women in England.

Catherine of Aragon was the first wife of Henry VIII. Her refusal to agree to an annulment led to the English Reformation and England's break with the Catholic Church.

Katherine Parr, faithful and devoted wife to Henry VIII, loved many men and experienced many losses in her rich, short life.

Mary Grey's death on 20th April 1578 was little noticed by Queen Elizabeth's court, due to her recent scandalous marriage. She died, however, as heiress presumptive.

Lady Margaret Beaufort was the Tudor dynasty's matriarch. She harboured strong ambitions for her son during the turbulent Wars of the Roses. She wept at his coronation.

The words "Why do we need to know this?" are often heard in the classroom. Historical novels are one way to get high school students engaged in learning about the past.

Catherine of Aragon, Spanish princess and English queen fought for her marriage to King Henry VIII and won the hearts of the English people in the process.

Margaret Tudor led a very turbulent life, causing scandal. She married three times, and, like her brother Henry VIII, had trouble obtaining divorces.

Visitors walk grounds where English roses bloom, pheasants roost, a Queen of England is buried, English Civil War raged, and 1,000 years of romance and intrigue unfold.