THE TUDORS (Bestseller iBook Edition): LIFE OF HENRY VIII
(Including History of the Six Wives of Henry VIII: Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anne of Cleves, Catherine Howard, Catherine Parr)
Inspiration for Hit TV Series
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HISTORY
The Tudors: The Life of Henry VIII
With the Love Letters of Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn
Fully Annotated with Page Numberings Based on New Hardcover Edition
By
A.F. Pollard (Professor of Oxford University)
and
J. O. Halliwell Phillips (Fellow of the Royal Society)
Love Letters Composed By Henry VIII
TABLE OF CONTENTS
THE TUDORS
CHAPTER I.
THE EARLY TUDORS
CHAPTER II.
PRINCE HENRY AND HIS ENVIRONMENT
CHAPTER III.
THE APPRENTICESHIP OF HENRY VIII.
CHAPTER IV.
THE THREE RIVALS
CHAPTER V.
KING AND CARDINAL
CHAPTER VI.
FROM CALAIS TO ROME
CHAPTER VII.
THE ORIGIN OF THE DIVORCE
CHAPTER VIII.
THE POPE'S DILEMMA
CHAPTER IX.)
THE CARDINAL'S FALL
CHAPTER X.
THE KING AND HIS PARLIAMENT
CHAPTER XI.
"DOWN WITH THE CHURCH"
CHAPTER XII.
"THE PREVAILING OF THE GATES OF HELL"
CHAPTER XIII.
THE CRISIS
CHAPTER XIV.
REX ET IMPERATOR
CHAPTER XV.
THE FINAL STRUGGLE
CHAPTER XVI.
CONCLUSION
INDEX
LOVE LETTERS OF HENRY EIGHTH TO ANN BOLEYN
LETTER FIRST TO ANN BOLEYN
LETTER SECOND TO ANN BOLEYN
LETTER THIRD TO ANN BOLEYN
LETTER FOURTH TO ANN BOLEYN
LETTER FIFTH TO ANN BOLEYN
LETTER SIXTH TO ANN BOLEYN
LETTER SEVENTH TO ANN BOLEYN
LETTER EIGHTH: ANN BOLEYN TO WOLSEY
POSTSCRIPT BY HENRY VIII
LETTER NINTH TO ANN BOLEYN
LETTER TENTH TO ANN BOLEYN
LETTER ELEVENTH TO ANN BOLEYN
LETTER TWELFTH TO ANN BOLEYN
LETTER THIRTEENTH TO ANN BOLEYN
LETTER FOURTEENTH TO ANN BOLEYN
LETTER FIFTEENTH TO ANN BOLEYN
LETTER SIXTEENTH TO ANN BOLEYN
LETTER SEVENTEENTH TO ANN BOLEYN
LETTER EIGHTEENTH TO ANN BOLEYN
NOTES: LOVE LETTERS OF HENRY VIII TO ANNE BOLEYN
EXCERPT
"MY MISTRESS & FRIEND,
my heart and I surrender ourselves into your hands, beseeching you to hold us commended to your favour, and that by absence your affection to us may not be lessened: for it were a great pity to increase our pain, of which absence produces enough and more than I could ever have thought could be felt, reminding us of a point in astronomy which is this: the longer the days are, the more distant is the sun, and nevertheless the hotter; so is it with our love, for by absence we are kept a distance from one another, and yet it retains its fervour, at least on my side; I hope the like on yours, assuring you that on my part the pain of absence is already too great for me; and when I think of the increase of that which I am forced to suffer, it would be almost intolerable, but for the firm hope I have of your unchangeable affection for me: and to remind you of this sometimes, and seeing that I cannot be personally present with you, I now send you the nearest thing I can to that, namely, my picture set in a bracelet, with the whole of the device, which you already know, wishing myself in their place, if it should please you.
This is from the hand of your loyal servant and friend,
Henry"
