Historian Lucy Worsley visits the time of Henry VIII and tells the story of his six successive wives.
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Drama
Cast:Lucy Worsley , Nicholas Agnew , Claire Cooper , Crispin Letts , Scott Arthur , Bea Segura , Paola Bontempi , Alison Garner , Richard Ridings , Wilf Scolding , Alice Patten , Sam Phillips , Rebecca Dyson-Smith , Tom Durant Pritchard , Elly Condron , Lauren McQueen , Jamie de Courcey , Andrew Greenough
Historian Lucy Worsley takes a close look at the first two of Henry VIII's six wives: Catherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn.
Henry VIII annuls his marriage to Catherine and marries Anne Boleyn. who gives birth to Henry's second daughter, Elizabeth I. After being accused of adultery, Anne is executed. She is succeeded by wife number 3, Jane Seymour.
Lucy covers the fates of wives number 4 to 6: German-born Anne of Cleves, the teenage queen Catherine Howard, and Katherine Parr, the only queen to outlive Henry as his wife.