7 Women Who Escaped Marrying Henry VIII

History Tea Time

Lindsay Holiday

History

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🗓️ 2 September 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Henry VIII is famous for marrying 6 wives, abandoning 2 of them and beheading another 2. Some might say he ruined their lives! And though they may have briefly been Queens, they also likely cursed they met the royal tyrant. In his Majesty’s search for new brides there were a handful of ladies whom he considered, but either turned down, or rejected him. Let’s meet the 8 lucky ladies who managed to avoid a fateful walk down the aisle with the murderous monarch. And consider how their lives, and history might have been different if they had married Henry VIII. Potential 1st Wives: Marguerite de Angoulême, Queen of Navarre Eleanor of Austria, Queen of Portugal & France Potential 4th Wives: Mary of Guise, Queen of Scotland Maria of Portugal, Duchess of Viseu Christina of Denmark Amelia of Cleves Potential 7th Wife: Katherine Willoughby (Catherine Brandon), Duchess of Suffolk Real Wives: Catherine of Aragon Anne Boleyn Jane Seymour Anne of Cleves Catherine Howard Catherine Parr Join me every Tuesday when I'm Spilling the Tea on History! Check out my Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/lindsayholiday Follow me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100091781568503 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/historyteatimelindsayholiday/ Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@historyteatime Please consider supporting me at https://www.patreon.com/LindsayHoliday and help me make more fascinating episodes! Intro Music: Baroque Coffee House by Doug Maxwell Music: Journey in the New World by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Source: http://www.twinmusicom.org/song/258/journey-in-the-new-world Artist: http://www.twinmusicom.org #HistoryTeaTime #LindsayHoliday Please contact ⁠advertising@airwavemedia.com⁠ if you would like to advertise on this podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:05.5	Hello and welcome to History Tea Time.
1:09.7	I'm Lindsay Holiday and I'm spilling the tea on history.
1:16.8	Seven women who escaped marrying Henry the Eighth. Henry the Eighth of England is famous for
1:26.6	marrying six wives, abandoning two of them, and beheading
1:31.1	another two. Some might say he ruined their lives. And though these women may have briefly
1:37.9	been queens, they also likely cursed the day they met the royal tyrant. In his majesty's search for new brides,
1:47.0	there were a handful of ladies whom he considered, but he either turned them down or they rejected him.
1:55.2	Let's meet seven lucky ladies who managed to avoid a fateful walk down the aisle with the murderous monarch.
2:03.5	And consider how their lives and history might have been different if they had married Henry
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