Katherine Parr was, perhaps, one of Henry VIII’s luckier queens. She survived him, and he remained fond of her until the end. Nevertheless, her tenure as the ageing monarch’s wife was not easy, and, at one point, she was in serious danger of arrest and perhaps burning, for heresy. As the only one of...
Tudor Times
Paperback
62
Tudor Times Ltd
1911190016
9781911190011
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To the extent that she is popularly known, Katherine Parr (1512–48) is the woman who survived King Henry VIII as his sixth and last wife. She merits far greater recognition, however, on several other fronts. Fluent in French, Italian, and Latin, Parr also began, out of necessity, to learn Spanish wh...
Katherine Parr
Paperback
656
University Of Chicago Press
022621379X
9780226213798
2
'Linda Porter has done a marvellous job in bringing Katherine Parr to life. In so doing, she evokes the whole terrifying and exciting world of the Tudor courts, packed with intrigue and danger' - A.N. Wilson, "Reader's Digest". In this, the first full-scale biography of Katherine Parr, Linda Porter ...
Linda Porter
Paperback
384
Pan Publishing
0330460803
9780330460804
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Dangerous court intrigue and affairs of the heart collide as renowned novelist Jean Plaidy tells the story of Katherine Parr, the last of Henry VIII’s six queens.Henry VIII’s fifth wife, Katherine Howard, was both foolish and unfaithful, and she paid for it with her life. Henry vowed that his sixth ...
Jean Plaidy
Kindle Edition
306
Broadway Books
6
“Smart, sensual and suspenseful as a thriller, Queen’s Gambit is a must-read for Philippa Gregory fans—and heralds a brilliant new player in the court of royal fiction” (People).Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived: This is the story of the one who survived. Widowed for the second ...
Elizabeth Fremantle
Paperback
464
Simon & Schuster
1476703078
9781476703077
5
This book examines the life of an important, but often forgotten, Protestant Reformer. Katherine Parr, one of only a handful of women to publish in a hundred-year period in England, dared to push Henry VIII toward the Reformation, nearly losing her head as a result. This volume is a guided tour of h...
Brandon G. Withrow
Paperback
192
P & R Publishing
1596381175
9781596381179
4
The general perception of Katherine Parr is that she was a provincial nobody with intellectual pretensions who became queen of England because the king needed a nurse as his health declined. Yet the real Katherine Parr was attractive, passionate, ambitious, and highly intelligent. Thirty years old (...
Linda Porter
Paperback
416
St. Martin's Griffin
0312616961
9780312616960
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