Who were the six wives of Henry VIII – in order?

nubile Catherine Howard

Why did Henry VIII have six wives? Henry divorced two of his wives (Catherine of Aragon and Anne of Cleves), he had two of his wives executed (Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard) and one of his wives (Jane Seymour) died shortly after childbirth.

• Catherine of Aragon.
• Anne Boleyn.
• Jane Seymour.
• Anne of Cleves.
• Catherine Howard.
• Katherine Parr.

Henry VIII is one of England’s best-known monarchs. Best remembered in rhyme form; ‘divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived’; two of Henry’s marriages were declared annulled, two of his wives were beheaded and another of them died after giving birth to his only son.

Henry went on to have five more wives; two of whom—Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard—he executed for alleged adultery after he grew tired of them. His only surviving child by Catherine of Aragon, Mary, ascended to the throne upon the death of her half-brother, Edward VI, in 1553.

Jane Seymour

Jane Seymour – 9/10 She gave him his longed for son, so he loved her more than any of his other wives. Jane was so much the favourite that she was the only wife to receive a queen’s funeral, and the only to be buried beside him.

As time passed, Henry clearly grew to love, trust and respect Elizabeth, and they seem to have become emotionally close. There survives good evidence that she loved him, and a moving account of how they comforted each other when their eldest son, Arthur, died in 1502.

While their marriage was arranged to unite the warring houses of York and Lancaster, Lizzie and Henry eventually fall in love with each other. Jacob and Jodie take us inside Henry and Lizzie’s heads and tease what’s to come in the 8-episode series. Lizzie & Henry’s relationship doesn’t start out in the best way.

So, yes, the House of Windsor is descended from the House of Tudor and the House of Plantagenet – through one of Henry VII’s daughters, who married a Scottish king and whose great-grandson was King James I of England (at the same time that he was King James VI of Scotland), then through James’ great-grandson Georg of …

Also Elizabeth I bathed frequently compared to her courtiers. It is reported that the Queen bathed at least once every month – and to her contemporaries that was almost too much! The Queen’s sharpened sense of smell might have contributed to the frequent baths but Elizabeth still joins the league of the “clean” Tudors!

Thurley states that Henry, on medical advice, took ‘medicinal herbal baths’ each winter but avoided baths if the sweating sickness reared its ugly head. Apart from bathing with scented soap, the wealthier Tudors could also afford to buy perfume.

Ludlow Castle

The Downfall of the House of Tudor. Everyone said that the Tudors were cursed for killing the York princes in the Tower.

Who were the Plantagenets? The Plantagenets were the kings that followed the Normans and who lasted until the time of the Tudors.