Excellent overview of Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anna of Cleves, Katherine Howard, and Catherine Parr. 

Antonia Fraser focuses on each woman separately, even dividing the book up into one section for each of the six women, but when overlap between the wives occurred she explained things well enough to not let the reader get too confused. Fraser also provided a good amount of background on the other people at court who were involved in the rise and fall of each wife, which provided useful contact. 

Most importantly, this book doesn’t portray them as only wives or only victims. Rather, Fraser gives insight into each woman’s personal life and interests, which did not  revolve around Henry VIII regardless of what he imagined. Fraser granted them dignity and individualism when they are so often lumped together as just “The Six Wives of Henry VIII.”