Steve Donoghue’s posts from the original Open Letters Monthly Archives.
Jane Seymour is in many ways the most elusive of all the wives of King Henry VIII, dying just weeks after giving the king his longed-for male heir. A new novel delves into the human connection between Henry and his third wife.
Read MoreKing Henry VIII's last wife referred to her as "Hell," and the Court universally despised her coarse ambition - she was Anne Seymour, and she's the unlikely subject of a nifty new novel
Read MoreIn the famous jingle 'divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived,' Katherine Parr comes last - the sixth wife of King Henry VIII. But she was far more than that - scholar, regent, and passionate young woman - as a new Tudor historical novel attempts to portray
Read MoreThe meek and dutiful Jane Seymour, mother of Henry VIII's long-sought male heir, takes center stage in a new historical novel about her life and times.
Read MoreA new novel tries to infuse life and drama into the mousy, deferential person of Henry VIII's third wife, Jane Seymour
Read MoreAt her trial, Anne Boleyn was accused of adultery, witchcraft, and incest - charges long mocked by historians. But a new book asks: is it possible Anne was actually guilty?
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