Katheryn Howard – Alison Weir

General Information
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Title: Katheryn Howard
Author: Alison Weir
Read By: Rosalyn Landor
Copyright: 2020
Genre: Historical Fiction
Series Name: Six Tudor Queens
Position in Series: 05

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Book Description
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Best-selling author and acclaimed historian Alison Weir tells the tragic
story of Henry VIIIΓÇÖs fifth wife, a 19-year-old beauty with a hidden
past, in this fifth novel in the sweeping Six Tudor Queens series.

In the spring of 1540, Henry VIII is desperate to be rid of his unappealing
German queen, Anna of Kleve. A prematurely aged and ailing 49, with
an ever-growing waistline, he casts an amorous eye on a pretty 19-year-old
brunette, Katheryn Howard. Like her cousin Anne Boleyn, Katheryn is
a niece of the Duke of Norfolk, EnglandΓÇÖs premier Catholic peer, who
is scheming to replace Anna of Kleve with a good Catholic queen. A fun-loving,
eager participant in the life of the royal court, Katheryn readily succumbs
to the kingΓÇÖs attentions when she is intentionally pushed into his
path by her ambitious family.

Henry quickly becomes besotted and is soon laying siege to KatherynΓÇÖs
virtue. But as instructed by her relations, she holds out for marriage
and the wedding takes place a mere fortnight after the kingΓÇÖs union
to Anna is annulled. Henry tells the world his new bride is a rose without
a thorn, and extols her beauty and her virtue, while Katheryn delights
in the pleasures of being queen and the rich gifts her adoring husband
showers upon her: The gorgeous gowns, the exquisite jewels, and the
darling lap-dogs. She comes to love the ailing, obese king, enduring
his nightly embraces with fortitude and kindness. If she can bear him
a son, her triumph will be complete. But Katheryn has a past of which
Henry knows nothing, and which comes back increasingly to haunt her
– even as she courts danger yet again. What happens next to this na├»ve
and much-wronged girl is one of the saddest chapters in English history.–

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