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The Other Tudors : Henry VIII's Mistresses and Bastards, Paperback / softback Book

The Other Tudors : Henry VIII's Mistresses and Bastards Paperback / softback

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Forget everything you thought you knew about Henry the Eighth.

While Henry VIII has frequently been portrayed as a womanizer, author Philippa Jones reveals a new side to his character.

Although he was never faithful, Jones sees him as a serial monogamist: he spent his life in search of a perfect woman, a search that continued even as he lay dying.

This book brings together for the first time the 'other women' of King Henry VIII.

When he first came to the throne, Henry VIII's mistresses were dalliances, the playthings of a powerful and handsome man.

However, when Anne Boleyn disrupted that pattern, ousting Katherine of Aragon to become Henry's wife, a new status quo was established.

Suddenly noble families fought to entangle the king with their sisters and daughters; if wives were to be beheaded or divorced so easily, the mistress of the king was in an enviable position.

Yet he loved each of his wives and mistresses, he was a romantic who loved being in love, but none of these loves ever fully satisfied him; all were ultimately replaced."The Other Tudors" examines the extraordinary untold tales of the women who Henry loved but never married, the mistresses who became queens and of his many children, both acknowledged and unacknowledged.

Philippa Jones takes us deep into the web of secrets and deception at the Tudor Court and explores another, often unmentioned, side to the King's character.

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