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The Six Queens of Henry VIII Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
4 Episodes 2016 - 2016
Episode 1
Katherine of Aragon
43 mins
The teenage Henry VIII falls in love with the beautiful Spanish princess Katherine of Aragon. As his first queen she leads the kingdom at war, wins the love of the people, and teaches Henry how to rule. But tragically, Katherine cannot give Henry the son he wants to save the Tudor dynasty.
Episode 2
Anne Boleyn
43 mins
Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII's bewitching mistress, is desperate to become Queen of England. Sexually obsessed with Anne and desperate for a son, Henry cruelly abandons Katherine of Aragon, his wife of twenty years. But Henry's obsession with Anne soon darkens into jealousy.
Episode 3
Jane Seymour & Anne of Cleves
44 mins
After decades of disaster Henry VIII's third wife, Jane Seymour, finally gives him the son and heir he craves. But tragically she dies within days of childbirth, and Henry's joy turns to despair. Convinced to marry again, Henry chooses the German princess Anne of Cleves. But all he sees before the engagement is a painting, and in the flesh he finds Anne so ugly he becomes impotent. Now he must fight to escape the marriage, while his advisor Thomas Cromwell pays for the fiasco with his head.
Episode 4
Catherine Howard & Katherine Parr
43 mins
Dramatised documentary about the infamous Tudor king and the women he married. Historians Suzannah Lipscomb and Dan Jones tell the stories of Henry's last two wives - the fifth, the young, beautiful but indiscreet Catherine Howard, the sixth, the mature and wise Catherine Parr who nearly lost her head when she pushed him too far on religious reform.
