Finished: Henry VIII (Shakespeare) I always love reading Shakespeare, but this one was harder for me to get interested in for some reason. Henry VIII was the son of Henry Tudor (the VII), who won the crown from Richard III. I really enjoyed reading all those Shakespeare "histories", so I'm not sure why this one didn't grab me. Surprisingly to me, it wasn't very much about his seven wives. As a matter of fact, we only meet two of them...his first one, Catherine of Aragon, and then the one he divorced Catherine for, Anne Boleyn. The story was more about how King Henry put so much trust in Cardinal Woolsey, only to find out that Woolsey was being duplicitous. Of course, he didn't find that out until after Woolsey had been responsible for the beheading of the beloved Duke of Buckingham. Anyway, by the end of the play, Anne Boleyn has given birth to Elizabeth and the future Queen has just been christened. Not my favorite, but I'm still glad to have read it! I always feel smarter, yet really dumb at the same time, after reading a Shakespeare play, lol.