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Article: The Politics of Marriage: Henry VIII and his Queens.
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- Contemporary Review
- Article date:
- January 1, 1995
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As our constitutional monarchy anticipates the shock waves of two royal divorces, The Politics of Marriage seems all too apposite. Of course, it relates to the position of four hundred years ago, in a monarchy if not absolute then very nearly so at times, but the human issues involved remain so intense that, as Arthur Innes wrote in 1913, 'the political and religious issues, great as they are, then sink into the background'. David Loades is one of the most scholarly and erudite of living Tudor historians. He has liberalised his style in this specially commissioned work for Alan Sutton and the result exerts all the fascination that these tragic women and their legendary ...
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