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—Holbein’s paintings and sketches are reproduced in Holbein and the Court of Henry VIII, a catalogue printed by The Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace, 1978, H.M. the Queen. Read about the sitters in David Mathew’s The Courtiers of Henry VIII (London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1970).

The Old Henry VIII

-Lacey Baldwin Smith, Henry VIII: The Mask of Royalty, (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1971). A study of the last ten years of Henry’s life, an enthralling account, with solid scholarship.

-J.F.D. Shrewsbury, “Henry VIII: A Medical Study,” Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, VII (1952); A.S. McNalty, Henry VIII: A Difficult Patient (London, 1952).

—Visit Deal and Walmer Castles in Kent, his coastal defenses built during the war scare of 1539; they were the latest in design for the new cannon warfare.

THE WIVES

Katherine of Aragon:

Garrett Mattingly, Catherine of Aragon (Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1941). Still the definitive biography, fine scholarship and beautifully written. Visit Buckden Palace and Kimbolton (now a school) in Huntingdonshire, her places of exile; her grave at nearby Peterborough Abbey.

Anne Boleyn:

Eric W. Ives, Anne Boleyn (London: Basil Blackwell Inc., 1986); Paul Friedmann, Anne Boleyn, a Chapter of English History, 1537-1536, 2 vols. (1884). Visit Hever Castle in Kent; her grave at the Chapel of St. Peter-ad-Vincula at the Tower of London.

Jane Seymour:

No biography is available; the nearest is William Seymour’s Ordeal

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