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The New Royals Queen Elizabeth's Legacy and the Future of the Crown

Katie Nicholl

Vanity Fair For seventy years, Queen Elizabeth ruled over an institution and a family. During her lifetime she was constant in her desire to provide a steady presence and to be a trustworthy steward of the British people and the Commonwealth. In the face of her uncle’s abdication, in the uncertaint...

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This book discusses the lives of Henry VIII's six wives and how they were more than just wives. It was mentioned in a commercial for a podcast on Wondery.

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Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived.

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This book discusses the lives of Henry VIII's six wives and how they were more than just wives. It was mentioned in a commercial for a podcast on Wondery.

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Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived.

We know the six wives of Henry VIII as pawns in his hunt for a son, but their lives were so much more than just being the King's wives.

We rarely see Henry VIII's wives in their own light as women who use the tools available to them to hold onto power.

Some women won the game, others lost, but they were all unexpected agents in their own stories.

Being a part of a royal family might seem enticing, but more often than not, it comes at the expense of everything else, like your freedom, your privacy, and sometimes even your head.

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