Profs & Pints DC: The Six Wives of Henry VIII

Profs and Pints DC presents: “The Six Wives of Henry VIII,” with Amy Leonard, associate professor of history at Georgetown University and scholar of women during the early modern period.

“Divorced, beheaded, died; divorced, beheaded, survived.”

This six-word rhyme is often all anyone knows or remembers about the six wives of Henry the Eighth. It’s also the starting point for the acclaimed hit musical Six, scheduled to be performed at Washington D.C.’s National Theatre from November 12th through December 1st.

But as the musical makes clear, these six women were more than just a footnote in Tudor history, and they deserve to be remembered for more than just how their lives ended.

Learn more about them at DC’s Penn Social with the help of Professor Amy Leonard, a scholar of women in Europe in the early modern period, when Henry VIII reigned. Having previously given fantastic Profs and Pints talks…