Henry VIII: The Tragic Fates of His 6 Wives

Eleven days. That is the gap between Anne Boleyn's beheading on Tower Green in May 1536, and her replacement Jane Seymour's wedding ring at Whitehall, and it is the cleanest illustration available of how a marriage to Henry VIII was actually conducted at the level of paperwork. The king did not divorce his wives so much as dispatch them, biologically or legally, with the next contract already drafted. Six women would pass through this office between 1509 and 1547. Two would die under the executioner's blade, two in childbed, one slowly of cancer in a damp castle on the fens. Music used in the video: Over Time by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Artist: http://audionautix.com/