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The Six Wives of Henry VIII Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived: these are the ultimate fates of the six wives of Henry VIII. Henry took his first bride, Catherine of Aragon, when he was seventeen. They lasted twenty-four years together, but Catherine suffered through many miscarriages and failed to produce a male heir. Henry then fell in love with Anne Boleyn, the mother of Elizabeth I. Their relationship transformed England forever, but Henry had …

…entire nation. <Tab/> <Tab/><Tab/> <Tab/> Bibliography Fraser, Antonia. The Wives of Henry VIII. New York: Knopf, 1993. Starkey, David. Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII. New York: HarperCollins, 2003. The Six Wives of Henry VIII. <http://www.pbs.org/wnet/sixwives/>. The Six Wives of Henry VIII. <http://tudorhistory.org/wives/>.