In this Historical Books segment with Harry Schmitz from Elizabeth's Bookshops he looks at "The Six Wives of Henry VIII" - Antonia Frasers best selling biography. The six wives of Henry VIII - Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anna of Cleves, Katherine Howard and Catherine Parr - have become defined in a popular sense not so much by their lives as by the way these lives ended.
But, as Antonia Fraser conclusively proves, they were rich and feisty characters. They may have been victims of Henry's obsession with a male heir, but they were not willing victims.