Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anne of Cleves, Catherine Howard, and Catherine Parr each get their own episode in this six-part account of Henry VIII's marriages, narrated by historian David Starkey. Rather than treating the wives as footnotes to the king's story, each installment works from her own letters and household records to reconstruct her position at court: Catherine of Aragon arrives in England at sixteen to marry Henry's brother Arthur, then waits seven years as a widow before marrying Henry himself; Thomas Cromwell brokers the politically useful match with Anne of Cleves; Catherine Howard, a cousin of Anne Boleyn, catches the king's eye while serving as Anne's own lady-in-waiting. Dramatized scenes fill in court life alongside the historical record, and Starkey's throughline is that these women were players in Tudor power politics, not passive victims of it, even as several end in exile or execution. The result is a portrait of one reign told six times over, each version reshaping what the others left out.