My first exposure to the melodramatic reign of this influential monarch - who founded the Church of England for all the wrong reasons - was in the 1970 award-winning BBC miniseries The Six Wives of Henry VIII. Each 90-minute episode was dedicated to one of his wives. Most episodes did not end happily. But what was missing from that epic of a king's struggle to sire a son was a little known story of the sister of his second wife. The Other Boleyn Girl fills that gap. Author Philippa Gregory... ...
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