This is the fourteenth installment in the Dalek Game and is for Alison Weir’s The Six Wives of Henry VIII, which has been on my bookcase for a very long time, and which I keep overlooking in favour of histories of early Australian aviation, but is meant to be very good.
Also, if you want to remember the order of the fates of Henry’s wives, it’s “divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived”, but I can never recall the order of their names.
It’s because of Flanders & Swann that I remember Greenfleeves (funny name for a fong) is attributed to Henry (“We are Henry the Eighth, we are”).
June 22, 2011 at 11:44 pm
I’m loving the Dalek Game! I really like your work…all so clever and well done.
June 28, 2011 at 10:17 pm
Thank you!
June 23, 2011 at 9:32 am
Your “Henry” is great!
June 23, 2011 at 11:59 am
I was thinking the same thing – the depiction of “Henry” is really good. These installments of “The Dalek Game” are ALL entertaining!
June 28, 2011 at 10:18 pm
Thank you both – I’m glad you like him. He was fun to draw. I need to find an excuse to draw more. Maybe a Henry VIII game when I run out of Daleks :)
June 23, 2011 at 2:17 pm
I laughed at this one. Anyone lining up for more than one dalek is a glutton for punishment.
June 28, 2011 at 10:18 pm
Hehe :)
October 24, 2011 at 10:43 am
My sister mentioned this, and said it was absorbing. She didn’t mention that I’d be as absorbed in your words as in your drawings. And hey! Flanders and Swann!
October 26, 2011 at 10:44 pm
Enjoying digging through the Dalek Game very much! But can’t help myself here:
First names were almost ‘symmetrical’:
Catherine
Anne
Jane
Anne
Catherine
Catherine
(except some of the Catherines may have been Katherines but hey, spelling wasn’t standardised then)
also their ‘surnames’ were alphabetical among the Catherines (A-H-P) and among the Annes (B-C)
i.e. 1 was Catherine of Aragon
5 was Catherine Howard
6 was Catherine Parr
2 was Anne Boleyn
4 was Anne of Cleves
in fact, take it a stage further and the only surname not in alphabetical order was Jane Seymour. Also the name of a current actress!
I think the divorces were actually annulments, and at least one wife was both annulled and then beheaded. Possibly. I’m not a historian. :)
October 28, 2011 at 8:36 pm
Ah, the Tudors – endless entertainment and maths revision :) And I’m glad you’re enjoying the game!