The Six Wives of Henry VIII

Season 1

TV-PG

Series of television plays written by six different authors. Each play is a lavish dramatization of the trials and tribulations surrounding Henry and his wives. Keith Michell ties the episodes together with his dignified and magnetic performance as the mighty monarch.

Where to Watch Season 1

6 Episodes

Catherine of Aragon
E1
Catherine of AragonCatherine is widowed at only 16, and after the death of the miserly Henry VII, she happily marries the young handsome Henry VIII, could any two people be so much in love? The years ahead will provide many answers to that question.
Anne Boleyn
E2
Anne BoleynThis second episode of the series overlaps with the first, and thus begins when Queen Anne and King Henry are already estranged. After several pregnancies, Anne has provided her husband with only one surviving child, Princess Elizabeth. Extremely unpopular with both the public and the aristocracy, Anne has few friends to protect her when Henry's eye lights upon the virginal Jane Seymour.
Jane Seymour
E3
Jane SeymourThe King is embroiled with the Reformation, and after the execution of Anne Boleyn he marries the kind and loving gentlewoman Jane Seymour. Will she provide him with the peace and comfort he needs and, even more importantly, a male heir?
Anne of Cleves
E4
Anne of ClevesReligious strife between Catholics and Protestants continues to swell in Europe. To try to balance the Catholic threat of France and Spain, Thomas Cromwell persuades King Henry into a political marriage with the sister of the Protestant German Duke of Cleves.
Catherine Howard
E5
Catherine HowardHenry's ulcerated leg is causing him agony. The Duke of Norfolk presents his young and pretty niece Catherine Howard to the King, who becomes captivated. Henry soon marries Catherine - but will she prove to be his rose without a thorn?
Catherine Parr
E6
Catherine ParrCorpulent and old, Henry makes a final trip to the altar, with the puritan Lady Latimer, Catherine Parr. The new queen brings Henry’s estranged daughters, Mary and Elizabeth, back into the family fold, but irritates the king by debating religion with him and his advisors.