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(Rochester, NY)- The 16 th century legend of King Henry VIII is turned on its crowned head as the dramatic stories of his six tumultuous marriages are told from the wives’ perspectives in Secrets of the Six Wives, a three-part dramatic and historical series airing Saturday, June 10, 2017 beginning at 3 p.m. on WXXI-TV. With extraordinary attention to detail – including actual first-person accounts pulled from historical records and secrets and stories from the women who surrounded each Queen – Secrets of the Six Wives offers an ambitious approach to the oft-told tales. Led by UK author and historian Lucy Worsley, who moves seamlessly from the present to the past and appears throughout the series as an observer and commenter on the happenings at court, Secrets of the Six Wives gives history a new point of view.
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Worsley is the Joint Chief Curator at Historic Royal Palaces, and a face familiar to British audiences as a regular historical contributor to BBC, whose best-selling books bring new angles on centuries of British history. The series’ three episodes follows the trajectory of a well-known British nursery rhyme used to teach children the order of the six wives, “Divorced, Beheaded, Died; Divorced, Beheaded, Survived.” A short recap of each episode follows: • Worsley begins the series by transporting viewers to the Tudor Court for Episode 1, where young Henry is smitten with Spanish princess Katherine of Aragon, who became his first wife, until her “inability” to deliver a suitable heir destroyed their marriage. Henry’s wandering eye leads him to Mary Boleyn then to her sister, the infamous Anne Boleyn, as he begins divorcing his first wife.
• In Episode 2, viewers learn that Anne Boleyn was not necessarily the “harlot” described by history, but instead a strong and intelligent woman. After Anne’s famous beheading, King Henry marries his professed “true love” Jane Seymour, who bore the King’s only son but died soon after the child’s birth.
• Episode 3 takes place in Henry’s later years and traces the failed marriages he had with Anne of Cleves, whom he divorced, but who got a very good settlement and ended up as one of the richest women in England, and Catherine Howard, a teenager who Lucy discovers was exploited by older men from a young age. She was also beheaded. Henry remained married to his sixth wife, Katherine Parr, until his death. Whether as witness to, participant in, or wry commentator on the marital dramas as they unfold, Worsley shines an empathetic light on the featured women and, in doing so, delivers a new take on the legend of King Henry VIII. Murray says the cast of Secrets of the Six Wives features mostly new faces from the U.K., helping to bring the story a contemporary feel.
Starring as the six wives are: Paola Bontempi (Katherine of Aragon); Claire Cooper (Anne Boleyn); Elly Condron (Jane Seymour); Rebecca Dyson Smith (Anne of Cleves); Lauren McQueen (Catherine Howard); and Alice Patten (Katherine Parr). Notable veteran actor Richard Ridings, who voices the character of Daddy in the popular children’s show Peppa Pig, appears as the older King Henry VIII in episode 3. Scott Arthur plays Young King Henry VIII in episodes 1 and 2. Pictured:Lucy Worsley Credit: Courtesy of Laurence Cendrowicz / © Wall to Wall South Ltd.
Laurence Cendrowicz, Wall to Wall South Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived. Cyusb driver windows 7 free. You know how the old rhyme goes. Do we really need another TV series about the six wives of maritally challenged Henry VIII? Yes, because this time, instead of another lavish historical drama about the obsessed English king who married six times (as in Showtime's The Tudors and PBS Masterpiece's Wolf Hall), we have an historical re-enactment documentary series coming to PBS that is told from the point of view of the wives themselves. This is new because. Well, Henry tends to hog the stage in the telling and re-telling of Tudor history. But the truly unprecedented aspect of the three episodes of Secrets of the Six Wives (Jan.
22, 10 p.m., PBS; times may vary) is that the historian-host herself plays a role in the re-enactments in the BBC co-production. 'I play the part of the most nosy servant in history,' says Lucy Worsley, chuckling. Laurence Cendrowicz, Wall to Wall South There she is in a corner, wearing a 16th-century servant's dress and listening closely while Henry examines an exquisite Christmas gift from his eventual second wife, the doomed Anne Boleyn. Redline software legal. As the king and Anne depart for a walk in the garden, Worsley breaks scene and addresses the camera, explaining how this is a start of a relationship that will change history — and not end well. This approach is different, says Worsley, who got the idea from her real-life job as chief curator of Britain's six Historic Royal Palaces, such as the Tower of London and Hampton Court, which are open to the public as museums. 'I spend a lot of my time in these palaces taking people around and very often we use costumed guides, which is more an American thing,' says Worsley, familiar for her programs about Britain's royal history and palaces and a more recent documentary on Ovation about the Palace of Versailles that accompanied the BBC2 drama series of the same name.