Divorced beheaded died divorced beheaded survived. CATHERINE OF ARAGON: the pious Spanish Catholic who suffered years of miscarriages & failed to produce a male heir...ANNE BOLEYN: the pretty clever French-educated Protestant whose marriage to Henry changed England forever...JANE SEYMOUR: the demure & submissive contrast to Anne Boleyns radical & vampish style...ANNE OF CLEVES: the mare of Flanders whose short marriage to the overweight Henry followed a farcical beauty contest...CATHERINE HOWARD: the flirtatious teenager whose adulteries made a fool of the ageing king...CATHERINE PARR: the shrewd religiously radical bluestocking who outlived him... In this dazzling study David Starkey gives us a richly textured picture of daily life at the Tudor Court from the womans point of view. Above all he establishes the interaction of the private & the public & demonstrates how the Queens of Henry VIII were central in determining political policy.