Reddit reviews The Wives of Henry VIII

I recommend Antonia Fraser's The Wives of Henry VIII if you're interested in a somewhat sympathetic take on him and the women he fell in love with.

I think it's fair to say that history all over Europe would have been pretty different had Henry FitzRoy reigned long, or Edward IV not died so young - really if anything had kept first Mary and then especially Elizabeth from ascending the throne. Not to mention how differently the spread of Protestantism might have gone had Henry's first wife Catherine of Aragon given birth to a living son... Henry would have still had affairs, but wouldn't have felt the need to break with Rome to get a divorce.