<p> The women who married Henry VIII have become defined<br/> not by the way they lived but by the way their lives ended.<br/> They are seen as victims of a bloated tyrant, deserving pity, but not<br/> respect. However, have we under-estimated them and are historians right to<br/> have merely portrayed them as bit-part pla<x>yers in Henry's story?<br/> Using dramatic reconstruction and passionate narration,<br/> eminent historian and presenter Dr David Starkey focuses<br/> on the stories of the women themselves, revealing in<br/> intimate detail their experiences of sex, childbirth and the glamorous,<br/> dangerous life at court, including the deadly intrigues that dethroned<br/> them.</p>
