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Queen of the screen

Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived. So goes the rhyme about Henry VIII’s sixth wives, each with their own tragic story to tell. But it’s the sixth and last, Katherine Parr, the survivor, that history remembers the least. A new film, , to be released in cinemas at the end of this year, is set to change that. It will tell the dark story of Henry’s tense relationship with Katherine Parr, focusing on the period when Protestant Katherine was named regent for Henry when he was fighting overseas. In Henry’s absence Katherine pushes for a new future based on her radical beliefs, but when he returns, his fury turns on

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