Hume argues that Henry VIII’s queens mattered because each embodied a political cause. From Catherine of Aragon’s Spanish match through Anne Boleyn and the Reformation party, Jane Seymour as the instrument of the conservative nobles, Anne of Cleves and the Protestant alliance, Catherine Howard and Catherine Parr, he reads the marriages as moves in a national struggle.
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