When a king is courting a lady of the court, her heart usually trembles with delight and secret hopes, especially if His Majesty is a widower and intends to marry again. But not in the case of the English king Henry VIII with his reputation as “Bluebeard”: not a single woman could feel safe next to him! His first wife died in exile after a scandalous divorce (there were rumors that she was poisoned by the highest order); the second, the famous Anne Boleyn, was executed by the king for alleged treason; the third died of childbed fever; the marriage to the fourth was annulled; the fifth also ended her life on the scaffold. And now the monarch offers his hand and heart to Katharina Parr, who should become his “consolation in old age.” And even though she is in love with someone else and never wanted the crown, His Majesty does not accept refusals. Will the last wife of Henry VIII manage to avoid the tragic fate of her predecessors? Will she be able to curb the cruel temper of the king, who over the years becomes more and more suspicious and merciless? Will he escape alive from the embrace of “Bluebeard”?..