HENRY VIII DVD

Movie Description:
Henry VIII ascended to the throne a lithe, handsome seventeen-year-old and, after an extraordinary 38-year reign, died anembittered, obese invalid. The rest of Europe looked on in amazement as Henry, desperate for a maleheir, cast the older but loyal Katherineof Aragon aside for a series ofmarriages with wives who are better known for the way theirlives ended thanfor how they were lived: the determined temptress Anne Boleyn; the pious yettragic Jane Seymour; the outcast Anne ofCleves; the young, adulterous Katherine Howard and, finally, the devoted care- giver Katherine Parr.