INTRODUCTORY--WHY KATHARINE CAME TO ENGLAND--POLITICAL MATRIMONY 1 CHAPTER II 1501-1509 KATHARINE'S WIDOWHOOD AND WHY SHE STAYED IN ENGLAND 25 CHAPTER III 1509-1527 KATHARINE THE QUEEN--A POLITICAL MARRIAGE AND A PERSONAL DIVORCE 72 CHAPTER IV 1527-1530 KATHARINE AND ANNE--THE DIVORCE 124 CHAPTER V 1530-1534 HENRY'S DEFIANCE--THE VICTORY OF ANNE 174 CHAPTER VI 1534-1536 A FLEETING TRIUMPH--POLITICAL INTRIGUE AND THE BETRAYAL OF ANNE 225 CHAPTER VII 1536-1540 PLOT AND COUNTERPLOT--JANE SEYMOUR AND ANNE OF CLEVES 289 CHAPTER VIII 1540-1542 THE KING'S "GOOD SISTER" AND THE KING'S BAD WIFE--THE LUTHERANS AND ENGLISH CATHOLICS 350 CHAPTER IX 1542-1547 KATHARINE PARR--THE PROTESTANTS WIN THE LAST TRICK 398 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS HENRY VIII _Frontispiece_ _From a portrait by_ JOST VAN CLEEF _in the Royal Collection at Hampton Court Palace._ KATHARINE OF ARAGON _To face page_ 96 _From a portrait by_ HOLBEIN _in the National Portrait Gallery._ ANNE BOLEYN " " 192 _From a portrait by_ LUCAS CORNELISZ _in the National Portrait Gallery._ JANE SEYMOUR " " 288 _From a painting by_ HOLBEIN _in the Imperial Collection at Vienna._ ANNE OF CLEVES " " 336 _From a portrait by a German artist in St. John's College, Oxford. Photographed by the Clarendon Press, and reproduced by the kind permission of the President of St. John's College._ KATHARINE HOWARD " " 384 _From a portrait by an unknown artist in the National Portrait Gallery._ KATHARINE PARR " " 400 _From a painting in the collection of the_ EARL OF ASHBURNHAM. _Reproduced by the kind permission of the owner._ HENRY VIII " " 432 _From a portrait by_ HOLBEIN _in the possession of the Earl of Warwick. Reproduced by the kind permission of the owner._ THE WIVES OF HENRY THE EIGHTH CHAPTER I 1488-1501 INTRODUCTORY--WHY KATHARINE CAME TO ENGLAND--POLITICAL MATRIMONY