Top 10 Things You Didn't Know About Henry VIII
In honor of the 500th anniverary of King Henry VIII's coronation on June 24, 1509, TIME found 10 interesting tales about the famous monarch.
How can you remember what happened to all six of Henry's wives (which included three Catherines)? Schoolchildren in England are taught a mnemonic device to keep them straight. The old rhyme describes the fate of each — "Divorced, Beheaded, Died — Divorced, Beheaded, Survived." (For the record, their names were Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anne of Cleves, Kathryn Howard and Katherine Parr.)
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