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Title: Soap set in the 1500's
Review: This book made history very interesting. The author's information came from archived letters, so it is not just the opinion of the author. The book follows Henry VIII childhood and covers all six marriages. The book describes each of the wives history and what happens after the marriages. The book is better than a modern day TV Soap, arranged marriages, affairs,executions, power struggles, religious conflicts and politics from the time period. The book also showed different sides of the characters, for example Henry VIII seems at times like a tyrant, and then a pawn in a political game, with his court trying to deceive him for their own benefits(a deadly game). I also enjoyed the when the author included the cultural and geographical history as well as information on the residences of the King, Queen and Court.
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