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Henry VIII and His Six Wives (TV series)

2016 British documentary

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 10, 2026
Entity authorityQ29044816 ↗
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Henry VIII and His Six Wives is a four-part British documentary first broadcast in 2016 about Henry VIII and his wives, chronicling his turbulent private life and how it shaped Britain.

In April 2016, Leeds historian Dan Jones co-wrote and co-presented, with Dr. Suzannah Lipscomb, Henry VIII and His Six Wives which was shown on Channel 5.

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This entry incorporates text from “Henry VIII and His Six Wives (TV series)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.