Okay, so a month ago I gave in and starting Netflixing "The Tudors." For reasons I can't even explain, I've been completely drawn into this world. Last week I had some kind of food poisoning and in my state of delirium/vertigo I had strange nightmares about beheadings, childbirth, etc. On Tuesday at our beer-induced trivia night I was waiting on pins and needles for a Henry VIII question to pop up, but nada. 
 Anyway, this book gave me some verification that the series has historical merit, and gave me a boatload of thanks that I wasn't a woman living at this time. (Beheading seems too kind for me, anyway -- wouldn't it be a burning at the stake?) The book attempts to answer the question: Which of these women loved Henry VIII and which had no choice but to suffer as his wife? Or, who wanted the power badly enough that they were willing to abide life with Henry, who was never up for any Husband of the Year awards. 
 A good read. I'm trying to track down "Divorced, Beheaded, Died...", an earlier book on the wives.