LONDON — Many British schoolchildren will be familiar with the rhyme “Divorced, beheaded, died; divorced, beheaded, survived.” It was a common mnemonic device to help children learn the sequence of ...
James Clark receives funding from UKRI-AHRC. Henry VIII is not remembered as a loving husband. Any English schoolchild can recount the unpleasant fates of most of his six wives with the rhyme: ...