Adapted from the novel ‘The Queen’s Gambit,’ by Elizabeth Freemantle, the film portrays Henry VIII’s sixth and final wife Katherine Parr as she attempts to avoid the chopping block.
, King Henry VIII commends his sixth and final wife, Katherine Parr, on her excellent job filling in as Regent while he’s been abroad engaged in warfare.
Never mind the efforts to limit her powers to inconsequential matters, he tells her she won’t have to worry her “pretty little head” about all that anymore. The threat posed by women who think for themselves to the absolute power of men is a central theme in this starch-free tale of Tudor intrigue, its protofeminist perspective seamlessly woven into the narrative fabric without a hint of the didactic.
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