Katheryn Howard the scandalous queen : a novel
"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 forty-nine, with an ever-growing waistline, he casts an amorous eye on a pretty nineteen-year-old brunette, Katheryn Howard. Like her cousin Anne Boleyn, beheaded f...
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| Format: | Audiobooks Audiobook (TBD) |
| Language: | English |
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Solon, Ohio :
Findaway World, LLC,
[2020]
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| Edition: | Unabridged. |
| Series: | Weir, Alison, 1951- Six Tudor queens.
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| Summary: | "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 forty-nine, with an ever-growing waistline, he casts an amorous eye on a pretty nineteen-year-old brunette, Katheryn Howard. Like her cousin Anne Boleyn, beheaded four years earlier, Katheryn is a niece of the Duke of Norfolk, England's 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 king's attentions when she is intentionally pushed into his path by her ambitious family. Henry quickly becomes besotted and is soon laying siege to Katheryn's virtue. But as instructed by her relations, she holds out for marriage, and the wedding takes place a mere fortnight after the king's union to Anna is annulled. Henry tells the world that 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, the darling lapdogs. 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?ive and much-wronged girl is one of the saddest chapters in English history."-- |
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| Item Description: | Title from container. "Light." Previously released by Recorded Books, ?2020. Release date supplied by publisher. Issued on Playaway, a dedicated audio media player. One set of earphones and one AAA battery required for listening. |
| Physical Description: | 1 audio media player (16 hr., 30 min.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in. |
| ISBN: | 9781705021842 : |
