Family Trees
Introduction
Henry’s Weddings
Part One: Queen Catherine of Aragon
1. Parents: a power couple
2. Education for power
3. Power weddings
4. England
5. Negotiations
6. Arthur
7. Preparations
8. Delays
9. Dogma
10. The journey
11. Arrival
12. Meeting
13. Hubris
14. London
15. Wedding and bedding
16. The morning after
17. Nemesis
18. A new marriage?
19. Hard times
20. Harder times
21. Hope and despair
22. Queen
23. Honeymoon
24. A son
25. War
26. Regent
27. The breach with Spain
28. The quest for an heir
29. On the shelf
30. Mary
31. Marrying Mary
Part Two: Rival Queens
Divorcing Catherine
32. The preliminaries
33. Trial in secret
34. Between trials
35. The legate
36. The Brief
37. Trial in open court
38. The aftermath
Anne Boleyn
39. Beginnings
40. Debut
41. Henry in love
42. Sole mistress
43. Henry and Anne: ‘Our Matter’
44. Mistress and Minister
45. Anne’s envoy
46. Wolsey reascendant
47. Co-operation?
48. Wolsey’s triumph
49. The sweat
50. Turning point
51. Disillusionment
52. Wolsey’s fall
53. Injurious remedies
54. Cranmer
55. The Royal Supremacy
56. Wolsey’s end
57. Attacking Catherine
58. Preliminaries to marriage
59. Anne’s marriage
60. Archbishop
61. Divorce Absolute
62. Coronation
63. Christening
64. Resistance
65. Hearts and minds
66. The death of Catherine of Aragon
67. Reaction
68. Fall
69. The Tower
Jane Seymour
70. She stoops to conquer?
Part Three: The Later Queens
71. A Conversation
Anne of Cleves
72. From Queen to sister
Catherine Howard
73. ‘Virtuous and good behaviour’?
74. Interlude
Catherine Parr
75. A courtier’s daughter
76. Queen Catherine
77. Queen Regent
78. The test
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