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'Firebrand' makes Henry VIII's final wife, Catherine Parr, more than the last line of a nursery rhyme. Stars Alicia Vikander and Jude Law tell EW about the movie that leans more into the 'domestic ...
Catherine Parr was not simply the sixth (and last) wife of King Henry VIII of England. She was a gifted scholar and capable leader who helped cultivate the same qualities in her stepdaughter—the ...
Law stars as Tudor monarch Henry VIII, in the historical drama documenting the relationship between the 28-stone King and his sixth wife Catherine Parr, played by Alicia Vikander. King Henry was ...
Catherine Parr has spent centuries being reduced to a single word: "Survived." The final wife of Henry VIII, Parr has had her life and accomplishments compressed into a nursery rhyme — "Divorced.
Cannes: Alicia Vikander on playing Catherine Parr in Henry VIII drama 'Firebrand' It’s widely know that Henry VIII, the Tudor king, had a particularly grim batting average when it came to matrimony ...
A little over a year after Henry VIII’s death, Catherine Parr herself would die from complications from childbirth. It’s a grim part of Tudor history that takes center stage in Becoming ...
Once Vikander signed on to the film, directed by Karim Aïnouz, she read everything she could about Catherine, learning that Parr was the first woman to publish an original work under her own name ...
CANNES, France (AP) — It’s widely know that Henry VIII, the Tudor king, had a particularly grim batting average when it came to matrimony. His litany of wives, of course, are the subject of t… ...
Law stars as Tudor monarch Henry VIII, in the historical drama documenting the relationship between the 28-stone King and his sixth wife Catherine Parr, played by Alicia Vikander.
“Catherine Parr, out of all of the six wives I probably knew the least of,” Vikander said in an interview on a Cannes hotel terrace. “And it seemed like that was the general feel from ...