The dramatic story of the polygamist king Henry VIII, who received the nickname “Bluebeard” because two of his six wives died on the scaffold, has already become legendary. In the book of the English researcher David Lowes, the history of the ill-fated marriages of the English king is for the first time developed quite fully and objectively, so that the figure of the main character of this Renaissance drama becomes almost tragic, and the successive queens acquire living characters that largely explain their fates. This book will be read with enthusiasm everyone who is interested not only in the events of the great Renaissance, but also in the play of human passions close to any time.