David Loades is Emeritus Professor of the University of Wales. He has written many books on the Tudors, including: Henry VIII ('David Loades is one of our finest Tudor historians' ALISON WEIR), Mary Tudor and The Six Wives of Henry VIII ('I warmly recommend this book' ALISON WEIR). He is currently writing a major new history of the kings and queens of England also for Amberley Publishing. He lives in Burford in Oxfordshire.