Monday, May 14, 2007

Question from Barbara - Descriptions of Henry's Wives

Can you direct me to original source descriptions of the physical appearance of each of the wives of Henry VIII?

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

You can find a few different descriptions of Anne Boleyn here:

http://englishhistory.net/tudor/annedesc.html

Anonymous said...

Alison Weir's book "The Six Wives of Henry VIII" have good descriptions of all of his wives and even actual quotes from people who witnessed them.

Anonymous said...

Yes, as Jenna says, you can get some good leads to contemporary descriptions of all his wives if you go to

http://englishhistory.net/tudor/contents.html