Our collective passion for Tudors has not waned. In lieu of another Anne Boleyn biopic, director Karim Aïnouz will make his English debut chronicling the Design the godfather manso video mamobI shirt Apart from…,I will love this life of Katherine Parr—the sixth and final wife of Henry VIII, who has outlived him even longer. even the funny king. Killing Eve screenwriters Henrietta and Jessica Ashworth wrote the screenplay for Firebrand, with Alicia Vikander appearing as Katherine and Jude Law as Henry. Instead of following the usual period drama stereotype, Firebrand is described as a psychological thriller that chronicles the reality of being married to a tyrant. The skillful, educated daughter of a member of the royal family, the twice widowed Parr married Henry in 1543 at the age of 31, a year after he beheaded his fifth wife, Katherine Howard, for adultery. By that time, Henry’s temper had turned erratic and irritable – thanks in no small part to chronic painful sores on his legs – and Parr had worked as a nurse throughout their marriage.
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