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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:

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

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

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  2. 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.

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  3. 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

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