Dr Kat and the Symbols of the Six Wives of Henry VIII

The Tudors were experts at shaping and controlling their public image; in this video, I'm looking at how Henry VIII and his wives used heraldic badges to achieve just that.

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Intro / Outro song: Silent Partner, "Greenery" [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeIkbW49B6A]
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Crowned Tudor Rose badge of Henry VIII, from Wikimedia Commons

Anonymous 16th-century woodcut of the coronation of Henry VIII of England and Catherine of Aragon showing their heraldic badges, the Tudor rose and the pomegranate. From Stephen Hawes, A Joyfull Medytacvon to All Englande (1509), printed Wynkyn de Worde, 4to, n.d. (Cambridge University Library), a single sheet with a woodcut of the coronation of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon. From Wikimedia Commons.

Badges of the Six Wives, from the Weidenfeld and Nicolson Archives.

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