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Published: 2009-08-17 11:47:53 +0000 UTC; Views: 1267; Favourites: 37; Downloads: 26
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Description Henry VIII had six wives, remembered in sequence as follows:
Divorced, Beheaded, Died. Divorced, Beheaded, Survived. (He should have come with a Government Health Warning stamped on his forehead: "Your testosterone is dangerous to those around you".)
The ATC depictions of his wives are in my Gallery.

In his lusty rampage for wives across most of the royal houses of Europe, he tried to recruit various princesses to his bed, and luckily for most of them, he did not always succeed.

16 year old Christina of Denmark was petitioned as a possible wife in 1538, on the basis of a portrait of her by Hans Holbein. Christina refused, and is famously remembered for saying to the English ambassador: "If I had two heads, then one should be at the King of England's disposal."

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Gesso portrait, washi paper, acrylics, gel and gold pens, aquarelles, tippex.
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Comments: 15

nezaborav [2009-09-16 11:28:47 +0000 UTC]

Wise and spirited one

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EmpressofHeaven [2009-08-18 17:22:14 +0000 UTC]

She really said that? ahahah go her!

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hogret In reply to EmpressofHeaven [2009-08-19 07:17:11 +0000 UTC]

Brilliant, huh? Such a diss!

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EmpressofHeaven In reply to hogret [2009-08-19 17:40:13 +0000 UTC]

very, a pity she didnt live a longer life.

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alx123094 [2009-08-17 20:17:09 +0000 UTC]

i love your series all of the atc's have a sort of glow to them

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hogret In reply to alx123094 [2009-08-18 07:03:56 +0000 UTC]

Thank you!

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myroski [2009-08-17 18:41:38 +0000 UTC]

It's fun to learn something from these while admiring them

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hogret In reply to myroski [2009-08-18 07:04:16 +0000 UTC]

I'm a sucker for stories...

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claudiamm37 [2009-08-17 17:44:13 +0000 UTC]

She's beautiful!

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RichardLeach [2009-08-17 17:35:14 +0000 UTC]

Clever girl! And a beautiful card.

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LauraTringaliHolmes [2009-08-17 17:34:41 +0000 UTC]

"If I had two heads..." Great comment. Hans Holbein is turning out to be quite the woman-broker.

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hogret In reply to LauraTringaliHolmes [2009-08-18 07:04:47 +0000 UTC]

And Henry, I suppose, was the Hugh Hefner of his day!

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LizCohn [2009-08-17 16:16:14 +0000 UTC]

escaped the ax, did she?

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22thorn [2009-08-17 13:04:26 +0000 UTC]

This is my favourite of this series so far.

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Athalour [2009-08-17 12:36:29 +0000 UTC]

My response to Christina: you go, girl!

Beautiful, beautiful card. The colours work fantastically.

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