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Anne of Cleves: Henry VIII's most successful queen?

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Anne of Cleves: Henry VIII's most successful queen?

Anne of Cleves was Henry VIII's wife for just six months, making her the shortest reigning of all his queens. She is often dismissed as the 'ugly wife', little more than a blip in the history of England's most-married monarch. But, suggests Tracy Borman, the true story is entirely different to this humiliating fiction...

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