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Henry VIII and His Six Wives

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Original title

Henry VIII and His Six Wives

Year

1972

Running time

125 min.

Country

United Kingdom

Director

Waris Hussein

Screenwriter

Ian Thorne

Cast

Music

David Munrow

Cinematography

Peter Suschitzky

Producer

Anglo-EMI, BBC

Genre

Drama | Historical. 16th Century

Synopsis

On his deathbed Tudor-king Henry VIII remembers his long reign and especially the crucial part his six marriages played in it, without producing the male heir he desired most to prevent civil wars for the succession as England suffered before his father's ascent. His first queen, Spanish princess Kathryn of Aragon, had one fatal flaw: her children died, except daughter Mary, so he pressed Rome for an annulment, and when that failed out went cardinal Wolsey as chief minister and Henry made himself head of the Church of England instead of the papacy and married Anne Boleyn. When she too failed to produce a male heir, just princess Elisabeth, he had her head roll for 'infidelity'. The third queen, gentle Jane Seymour, died giving birth to sickly prince Edward. For diplomatic reasons Henry married minor princes Anne of Cleves, whose utter lack of female charms causes another annulment and the fall of Thomas Cromwell, who recommended her. Fifth is the lovely Catherine Howard, cousin of ...

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Henry VIII and His Six Wives

1972

Waris Hussein

6.3

(25)