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To: SmoothSail who wrote (186220)	11/8/2009 2:00:27 AM
From: sandintoes	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 225578

Okay, thank you for the history lesson...I wouldn't have married him, I like my head attached to my body too much. This article is about the wives of Henry VIII. For a more complete list of consorts, see List of English consorts. Henry VIII, in a portrait made c. 1520, during his nearly 24 year marriage to Catherine of Aragon. The wives of Henry VIII were the six queen consorts married to Henry VIII of England between 1509 and 1547. The six wives (queens consort) of King Henry VIII were, in order: Catherine of Aragon (annulled), Anne Boleyn (annulled then beheaded), Jane Seymour (died, childbirth fever), Anne of Cleves (annulled), Kathryn Howard (annulled then beheaded), and Katherine Parr. Because annulment legally voids a marriage, technically speaking Henry would have said he had only 2 "wives", but his marriage to Queen Catherine of Aragon was declared legal and valid during the reign of his daughter Queen Mary I.[1] It is often noted that Catherine Parr "survived him"; in fact Anne of Cleves also survived the king and was the last of his queens to die. Of the six queens, Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn and Jane Seymour each gave Henry one child who survived infancy—two daughters and one son, all three of whom would eventually accede to the throne. They were Queen Mary I, Queen Elizabeth I, and King Edward VI. A mnemonic for the fates of Henry's wives is "divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived". An alternate version is "King Henry the Eighth, to six wives he was wedded: One died, one survived, two divorced, two beheaded." Some[who?] have dubbed these as misleading doggerel, noting that Henry was never technically divorced from any of his wives, rather that his marriages to them were annulled. Likewise, it can be said that, four marriages—not two—"ended" in annulments, but this depends on the definition of annulment used. However, whether or not Henry annulled his marriage to Catherine Howard is under dispute. Catherine Howard and Anne Boleyn, Henry's two queens that were beheaded, were first cousins. Several of his wives worked in at least one of his other wives' service. Anne Boleyn worked in Catherine of Aragon's service; Jane Seymour worked in Catherine of Aragon's and Anne Boleyn's service; and Catherine Howard worked in Anne of Cleves's. Contents [hide]