Myths of the Six Wives: Part Two
Tudors Dynasty & Beyond
RedTop Media / Rebecca Larson
4.4 • 869 Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2026
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Today I’m joined again (Part Two) by historian and friend Sylvia Barbara Soberton to dig into some of the most famous - and widely repeated - myths about the six wives (Anne of Cleves, Katheryn Howard, and Kateryn Parr) of Henry VIII. From long-standing misconceptions to stories that have taken on a life of their own, we start unpacking what’s fact and what’s fiction.
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Host: Rebecca Larson
Guest: Sylvia Barbara Soberton
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tudors Dynasty and Beyond podcast, history with a twist. And now your host, Rebecca Larson. |
| 0:10.6 | Hello and welcome back to the show. I'm Rebecca Larson and I am welcomed again by my dear friend, |
| 0:18.0 | Sylvia Barbara Soberton. welcome hello thank you for having me back |
| 0:22.9 | Rebecca well we had to finish our last conversation the the listeners and viewers have been |
| 0:28.9 | clamoring to hear part two of the myths of the six wives so here we go I'm looking forward to |
| 0:37.1 | delve into it yeah but we did the first three wives |
| 0:40.4 | last time and we ran out of time because there were so many myths. And now here we are with the last |
| 0:48.4 | three. And I feel like, you know, the first three, especially Catherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn, |
| 1:02.4 | were at court for so much longer that there was a lot more to cover than maybe the last three are going to have. |
| 1:03.9 | But we're going to do our best, aren't we? |
| 1:05.2 | Definitely, yeah. |
| 1:06.1 | Okay. |
| 1:10.3 | So we ended the last episode with Jane Seymour. |
| 1:15.8 | And we looked at, it was like her C-section myth. |
| 1:19.9 | We looked at whether or not she was guilty of Anne's downfall. |
| 1:24.7 | And we're going to start now with Anne of Cleaves, who really had the shortest of all marriages to Henry VIII, didn't she? |
| 1:31.7 | Definitely. Just six months record, even for Henry VIII. |
| 1:35.7 | Yeah, yeah. And I feel like there's so much when it comes to Anne of Cleves that's unfair. |
| 1:42.9 | And she didn't have the opportunity to really defend |
| 1:47.3 | herself in history, or not in history, but with her contemporaries, but maybe more so now |
| 1:55.5 | with historians looking at her and debunking some of these myths. |
| 2:06.3 | So let's start out, of course, with the most common myth to me. |
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